"In education it isn't how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know and it's knowing how to use the information you get."

-- William Feather

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“There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.”
“These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older, by the time they even got a show. Now people come right out of school and sell.”
“As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.”

Source : John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”
“Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.”
“There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.”
“Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines.”
“...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately deep water .... That these littoral mollusks indicate by their presence on both sides of the Atlantic, some ancient continuity or contiguity of coast-line is what I firmly believe.”

Source : Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.56
“You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.”

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