"The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation."

-- Thomas A. Edison

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“The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.”

Source : Thomas Babington Macaulay, Thomas Noon Talfourd, James Stephen (1854). “Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous: Critical and miscellaneous writings”, p.77
“What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.”
“I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.”
“She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.”
“Never give up...never ever give up.”
“I got like a list of things at the beginning. There were ten things that Bryan made for each one of us, and he drew us our own personal picture of our character that was in color. And uh, I just have a copy of it, I think that they're going to do something special with the originals at the end, like presenting them to us.”

Source : "Johnny Simmons On Set Interview SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD - Read or Listen Here". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. May 25, 2010.
“I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”
“I think people are afraid. I remember when we'd have discussions in the '60s among people who were active. We'd say, "Well, people are afraid," and the answer to us was, "If you're afraid, you know you should be doing something." People are afraid today, but they're not doing anything.”

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