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"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"

"Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception - it means breaking the barriers of the rugged sociological system that impede in the progress of human civilization - it means trying out new things for the first time in human history and succeeding in a few while failing in some. And that is how a species grows to become more advanced."

"A book is a whole world that you can fit into your pocket."

"The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge."

"Life is a curriculum unique to every student."

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
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"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."

"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."

"The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting."

"I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown."

"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."

"I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know."
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