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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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Optimization hinders evolution.

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Any noun can be verbed.

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[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.

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Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

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Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

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Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

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The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

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The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.'

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Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

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PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.

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The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.

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Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

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The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

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