"The wisdom of our ancestors."

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"Getting an education is not only a matter of checking the boxes as your life progresses, it is a gift which can enrich every aspect of your world."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"If you are still breathing, don not stop learning."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"I who know many present things by my art," replied the Hermit with a smile, "have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know whether any man or woman or beast in the whole world will be alive when the sun sets tonight. But be of good hope. The damsel is likely to live as long as any her age."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Knowledge, Future, Hope, Uncertainty

"Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling .... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and [yet] with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as we every day experience."

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"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."

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"You can never plan the future by the past."

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"Getting an education is not only a matter of checking the boxes as your life progresses, it is a gift which can enrich every aspect of your world."

"If you are still breathing, don not stop learning."

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."

"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."

"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."

"Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you."

"Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know."

"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."

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"A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement."

"A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood."

"To innovate is not to reform."

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."

"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."

"You can never plan the future by the past."