"Programming is an explanatory activity."
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"I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world."
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"A great way to learn about your country is to leave it."
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"Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love."
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"Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education."
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"In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger that too much intellectualiza tion will kill the more contemplative practices and too much emphasis on practical implementation without study will kill the understanding. There has got to be a balance."
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"Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way."
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"Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others."
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"As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious."
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"A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character."
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"Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius."
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"In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering."
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"Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers."
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"What we learn to do, we learn by doing."
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"To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods."
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"The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value."
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"I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught."
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"In the particular is contained the universal."
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"All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy."
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"The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card."
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