A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it. But I have always wanted to think my own thoughts about a subject without being overly influenced by what others have thought before me.

— Parker Palmer Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999)

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