"The pupil wants not so much to learn, as to learn how to learn."

-- Samuel Boden

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“Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.”
“The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus ...”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
“Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.”

Source : Colley Cibber (1754). “The Dramatick Works of Colley Cibber, Esq; ... in Four Volumes. ...”
“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”

Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”
“Once you start thinking about growth of economy, it`s hard to think about anything else.”
“through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth”
“All autobiography is fiction.”
“Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.”

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