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Schooling Not Restricted To Youth

June 13, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?
—Arthur C. Clarke

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Genius?

May 23, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
—Carl Sagan

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Masters of our fate

May 9, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

[T]he people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
— Abraham Lincoln

Filed Under: Politics, Quotes

Imagination

April 25, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

You can’t depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.
—Mark Twain

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Anarchists?

April 18, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists.
— G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

— Charles Kingsley

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