"Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside."
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"Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed."
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"It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies."
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"The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer."
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"Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it."
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"Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith."
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"Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind."
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"Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember."
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"A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself."
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"Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal."
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"The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past."
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"But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried."
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"This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future."
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"It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded."
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"We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll and float it out in the sun inside plastic mebranes. We will build Scarsdale on Mount Everest."
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"But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach"."
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"We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating."
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"A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go."
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"The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful."
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"Zen goes directly to your own experience of the oneness of the universe, of your interconnectedness with all things. You learn to distrust whatever you clung to in your old sense of separation, and that realization can be the most liberating thing in your life, a freedom beyond anything you could have imagined."
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