"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet."
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Source: William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.6, Library of Alexandria
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