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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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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."
"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"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."
"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."
"The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty."
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of 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."
"A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation."
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