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| #5013 | | The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
-- Christopher Morley
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| #5014 | | "The student in question is performing minimally for his peer group and
is an emerging underachiever."
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| #5015 | | The sum of the intelligence of the world is constant. The population is,
of course, growing.
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| #5016 | | The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
-- Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Dispossessed"
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| #5017 | | The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed
ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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| #5018 | | The three best things about going to school are June, July, and August.
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| #5019 | | The Tree of Learning bears the noblest fruit, but noble fruit tastes bad.
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| #5020 | | The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious
seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the
unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more
bounteous harvest of gobbledegook than the rest of the world put together.
-- Sir Peter Medawar
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| #5021 | | The world is coming to an end! Repent and return those library books!
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| #5022 | | The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an
open doorway with an open mind.
-- E.B. White
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