“My physics teacher used to say Diogenes shouldn’t have wasted his time looking for an honest man,” Shirl said, “he should have been looking for somebody who thought for himself.”

Source: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 3 “Tributaries”, Section 4 (p. 127)

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