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    Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

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In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped read more

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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

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Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which read more

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