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"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"
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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty."
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"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."
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"My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects."
Education
"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism."
Criticism
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
Death
"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."
Creativity
"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."
Education
"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."
Education
"It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches."
College
"We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books."
Books
"This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault."
Mistake
"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."
Lie
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