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"You have to study a great deal to know a little."
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"Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read."
"In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things."
"We often know information but not the epistemology of that information."
"Failure is the school of greatness."
"We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher."
"Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own."
"I don't recall that when I was in high school or college, any novel was ever presented to me to study as a novel. In fact, I was well on the way to getting a Master's degree in English before I really knew what fiction was, and I doubt if I would ever have learned then, had I not been trying to write it. I believe that it's perfectly possible to run a course of academic degrees in English and to emerge a seemingly respectable Ph.D. and still not know how to read fiction."
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"The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests."
"People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout."
"But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go."
"Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"
"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason."
"Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us."
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