"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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"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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"Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space."

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Robert Mueller, American Public Servant

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"My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects."

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"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."

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"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."

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"The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty."

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"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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"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."

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"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."

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