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NUMBER:16121
QUOTATION:One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
ATTRIBUTION:René Descartes (1596–1650), French philosopher, mathematician, scientist. Discourse on Method, book II (1637).

Echoing a sentiment earlier expressed by, e.g., Cicero, Varro.
 
 
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