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"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his."

"My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure."

"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."

"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."

"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."

"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."

"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."

"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."

"No one knows a man better than himself."

"No one was born a reader we learn to build the habit of reading."
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