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I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

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Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

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Education is not received. It is achieved.

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Optimization hinders evolution.

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A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

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Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence. Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. ... It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.

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Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

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To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

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Question authority; but, raise your hand first.

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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

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I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.

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All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

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There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

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I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text.

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The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name!

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Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

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