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boldenblack
July 21, 2006, 02:19 PM
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.


- Malcom Forbes
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The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.


- John Holt
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Begin at the beginning, the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."


- Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.


- Kahlil Gibran
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.


- Bertrand Russell
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boldenblack
July 21, 2006, 02:20 PM
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.


- Friedrich Nietzsche

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When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.


- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In life, we are all in the gutter. Some of us just tend to look up at the stars.


- Oscar Wilde
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Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.


- Havelock Ellis
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