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The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.

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I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

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I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

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In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am.

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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

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All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

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A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

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Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

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The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

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Optimization hinders evolution.

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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

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I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text.

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

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One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.

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Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

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Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

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In the particular is contained the universal.

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