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|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing [[sense of life|worth doing]] was to add to the sum of [[Accuracy and precision|accurate]] [[information]] in the world.'''<br />
|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing [[sense of life|worth doing]] was to add to the sum of [[Accuracy and precision|accurate]] [[information]] in the world.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite>
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|48 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br />
|48 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br />
|49 = '''Quality is what we live for.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[Brian Goodwin]], How the Leopard Changed Its Spots, Preface, 2001''<br />
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Revision as of 20:25, 28 July 2011

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman (1918-1988), American physicist
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