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February 02, 2013
"Most people aren’t trained to want to face the process of re-understanding a subject they already know. One must obtain not just literacy, but deep involvement and re-understanding. - Charles Eames"

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November 18, 2012
"We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag."

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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May 03, 2012
"Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter."

— Bertrand Russell

(Source: brainpickings.org)

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April 30, 2012
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"It is the ability to spot the potential in the product of connecting things that don’t ordinarily go together that marks out the person who is truly creative."

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April 30, 2012
"A quality of great art is its ability to guide attention from one of its parts to another in a manner that pleases, informs, and provokes."

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April 23, 2012
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

— Mark Twain (via mythrils)

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April 04, 2012
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"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong."

— Feynman

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January 19, 2012
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"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."

— Voltaire (via philphys)

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January 17, 2012
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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

— Robert A. Heinlein

(Source: Wired)

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January 09, 2012
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"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.” - The Dalai Lama"

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(Source: spiritualnow.com)

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