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IN MY OPINION

SOCRATES:
"HAVEN'T YOU NOTICED THAT OPINIONS WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE ARE SHAMEFUL AND UGLY THINGS?
THE BEST OF THEM ARE BLIND - OR DO YOU THINK THAT THOSE WHO EXPRESS A TRUE OPINION WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING ​ARE ANY DIFFERENT FROM BLIND PEOPLE WHO HAPPEN TO TRAVEL THE RIGHT ROAD?"

(PLATO'S ​​REPUBLIC, BOOK VI 506C)
PLATO COMPLETE WORKS
TRANSLATOR: G.M.A. GRUBE, REVISED BY C.D.C. REEVE, JOHN M. COOPER, EDITOR, D.S. HUTCHISON, ASSOCIATED EDITOR,
HACKETT PUBLISHING COMPANY, INDIANAPOLIS / CAMBRIDGE, 1997, P.1127 
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    สมเกียรติ อ่อนวิมล
    Somkiat Onwimon
    (1948 - 20xx)
    ​lives in Thailand, studied Political Science, International Relations and South Asia Regional Studies at the University of Delhi (B.A. & M.A.) and University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.). He lectured at Chulalongkorn University, and later became a television news and documentary reporter-producer-anchorman. He was elected a member of Thailand's 1997 Constitution Drafting Assembly, a senator in 2000, and appointed member of the National  Legislative Assembly in 2007. 
    ​Now at his Pak Chong home, he lives a quiet country life of reading, writing, and thinking.

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