"You can either keep peddling, get off the bike or fall over."
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"Believing in the Tooth Fairy is easier than trying to figure out how else the money gets under your pillow."
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"If you wait until you're really sure, you'll never take off the training wheels."
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"A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily."
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"I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be."
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"I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the difficulties. One thing is certain, however, that never in life have I been quite so tormented. A great respect for mathematics has been instilled within me, the subtler aspects of which, in my stupidity, I regarded until now as pure luxury."
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"There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate."
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"To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away."
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"By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat."
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"Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable."
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"He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas"
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"I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing."
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"If we could share this world below, If we could learn to love... If we could share this world below, We'd need no world above."
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"To the makying of bookes of gardenyng there is noe ende."
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"I have always been, am, and propose to remain a mere scholar. All that I have ever proposed to myself is to say, this and this I have learned; thus and thus have I learned it; go thou and learn better; but do not thrust on my shoulders the responsibility for your own laziness if you elect to take, on my authority, conclusions the value of which you ought to have tested for yourself."
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"We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him."
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"Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher"
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"We're different, we're the same. You thought you'd never find a word to say to a woman who didn't fly airplanes. I couldn't imagine myself spending time with a man who didn't love music. Could it be it's not as important to be alike as it is to be curious? Because we're different, we can have the fun of exchanging worlds, giving our loves and excitements to each other. You can learn music, I can learn flying. And that's only the beginning. I think it would go on for us as long as we live."
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"Why stay on the earth except to grow."
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"I bought a self learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on and went to sleep; the record got stuck. The next day I could only stutter in Spanish."
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