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“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”

Henry Adams · Education

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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

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He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

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