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"This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of play is thus revealed: it permits us to gain, without any particular future application in mind, a holistic understanding of the world, which is both a complement of and a preparation for later analytical activities."
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"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
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Personal Development
"Reflection and learning are lifelong processes..."
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Personal Development
"In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things."
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Personal Development
"You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does."
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Personal Development
"Your ability to learn from the experiences of other successful people is one of your most important habits that will give you the best chance of success."
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Personal Development
"Everything I know, I learned from dogs."
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Personal Development
"To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane."
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"Take the time every day to teach and train yourself how to ask empowering questions. Those who ask the right questions change the world."
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"I've often heard it said, a preacherMight learn, with a comedian for a teacher."
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"A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions."
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"We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?"
Ethics
"You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected image. The drop is full of life - strange beings swimming, crawling, tumbling; high dramas of pursuit and escape, triumph and tragedy. This is a world populated by beings far more exotic than in any science fiction movie..."
Science
"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense."
Science
"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."
Truth
"Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe which dwarfs -- in time, in space, and in potential -- the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors."
Perspective
"Sometimes she would be engaged in a laboratory exercise or a seminar when the instructor would say, "Gentlemen, let's proceed," and sensing Ellie's frown would add, "Sorry, Miss Arroway, but I think of you as one of the boys." The highest compliment they were capable of paying was that in their minds she was not overtly female."
Equality
"Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This is an important, but difficult, concept for many law enforcement officers to accept. They are paid to uphold the penal code, not the Ten Commandments . The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement, but few can argue with it."
Religion
"For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness."
Potential
"Another glorious feature of many modern science museums is a movie theater showing IMAX or OMNIMAX films. In some cases the screen is ten stories tall and wraps around you. The Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museu, the popular museum on Earth, has premiered in its Langley Theater some of the best of these films. 'To Fly' brings a catch to my throat even after five or six viewings. I've seen religious leaders of many denominations witness 'Blue Planet' and be converted on the spot to the need to protect the Earth's environment."
Environment
"But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over."
Politics
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