"Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."

-- Ambrose Bierce

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“Different people are afforded different opportunities. I've been given some awesome opportunities, and I feel that I've always knocked them out of the park. But I've always been scaled back after that.”
“A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.”

Source : Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.34, Cambridge University Press
“Nature designed us to be of good cheer.”
“Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the first thought I have in the morning, and the thing that haunts me until I sleep.”
“Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.”
“Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.”
“Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as herding cats”

Source : John Naughton (2015). “A Brief History of the Future”, p.209, Hachette UK
“We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.”

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