"A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life."

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Source : Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.41, Prabhat Prakashan

Ernest Dimnet

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“Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.”
“To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.”
“I've been in relationships where we've said 'I love you' after two weeks.”
“Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by the shuffle of chance, then welded by blood, sees in itself the whole of earth, or all that matters of it. What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.”

Source : Belva Plain (2009). “Evergreen”, p.441, Dell
“However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.”
“I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar.”

Source : "New members: K-L-M", www.politico.com. January 17, 2013.
“The voices of the people are the voices of God.”
“Life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for something in between.”

Source : Christian De Duve (1995). “Vital Dust: Life As a Cosmic Imperative”, Basic Books

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