“Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.”

— David Eddings , book Belgarath the Sorcerer

Source: Belgarath the Sorcerer

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American novelist 1931–2009

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