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A genuinely original thought is nearly impossible, because everyone is born into traditions of thinking that most people never notice, let alone question.

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  1. Jennifer Burns

    Historian of ideas at Stanford University and the Hoover Institution

    So I do think it's really hard to have an original thought. We are social creatures. We encounter the same situations again and again. And so it's really hard. You're born into these traditions of thinking and being and knowing. And most people are never going to question them, and most people are never going to become aware of them.

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