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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
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"Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
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"Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it."

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Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
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"Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that constant vertically which confronts European culture with what it is not?"

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Miles Davis Musician
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"Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do."

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Honore de Balzac Novelist
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"Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle."

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Howard Gardner Psychologist, Educator
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"I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons."

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