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“To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to’t” Michel de Montaigne, “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne” - 1580

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.” Mark Twain, “Pudd'nhead Wilson” - 1894

“There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.” Carl Sagan, “The Demon-Haunted World” - 1995

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