"If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of all of them, and this is the role of abstraction. If you look at each too closely you see too many details. If you get far away things may appear simpler because you can only see the large, broad outlines; you do not get lost in petty details."

-- John G. Kemeny

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“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”
“In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.”
“On the web, you are what you publish.”
“As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.”

Source : Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.281, Walter de Gruyter
“I do not say the mind gets informed by action, â€” bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.”

Source : William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.308
“Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude-they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than physical conditioning, had to be stored up before a race.”
“Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.”
“I would say to any young black , if you get a job and you're asked to work 100%, then you work 125% and don't complain about it. The moment you complain about it, then you don't really want to work. Always do more than you're asked to do and you'll get far in life - and that applies to all youth.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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