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Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone—thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.

— Elbert Hubbard

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Source: Pig-Pen Pete, The Bee; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 787-90
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