"The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page."
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"I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action."
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"To buried merit rise the tardy bust."
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"Learn that the present hour alone is man's."
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"Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend."
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"Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance."
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"Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must learn to work with others."
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"I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs."
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"Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns."
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"It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die."
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"While we teach, we learn."
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"I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on"
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"What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same."
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"Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died."
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"The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated."
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"He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant."
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"The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'"
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"Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all."
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"You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities."
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"I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself."
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