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I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking, Names, Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.262, Library of America
I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.