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"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."
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"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."

"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."

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"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."
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