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"When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it."
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"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"

"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."

"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."

"In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied."

"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."
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"Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing."


"When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer."


"Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever."


"I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me."


"For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have."


"I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream."
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