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"No one will teach you what you ought to know. You must search the truth for yourself."
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"I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind."

"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."

"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."

"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his."

"My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure."

"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."

"No one can do the learning for you."

"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."

"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."

"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."
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