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The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.

Jacob M. Appel

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Jacob M. Appel
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 1
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Historian
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New York City
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