"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

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Source : 'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 25

Henry Adams

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“It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.”

Source : John Lanchester (2010). “I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
“I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.”
“Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.”
“Nothing can expand without it growing”
“People do tend to fear and despise shamans but turn to them in times of desperation. Such a contradiction is a human characteristic, no? I'm more pulled to the human drama of shamans - their experience in society and identity struggles - than their transcendental power. Their drastic lives enable them to empathize with others and provide solace.”

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“Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.”
“Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available”

Source : Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.182, Spectra
“I remember a time at Yale when my work was being critiqued by Paul Rand. Mr. Rand told me only to use Helvetica as a display face never in text, then he squinted, leaned in, and whispered in my ear, "because Helvetica looks like dogshit in text".”

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