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|51 = '''Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn't exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.'''<br /> | |51 = '''Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn't exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Steinbeck]]<br/> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Steinbeck]]<br/> | ||
|52 = '''It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.''' - - | |52 = '''It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mark Twain]]''<br /> | |||
|53 = '''The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first our own increase of knowledge; secondly to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.'''<br /> | |53 = '''The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first our own increase of knowledge; secondly to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Locke]]''<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Locke]]''<br /> | ||
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
— Henry David Thoreau
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