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The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men… — Jean Piaget
As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he… — Roger Bacon
My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take… — Muhammad Yunus
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.… — Abraham Lincoln
If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same. — Arnold Sommerfeld
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must… — George Polya
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to… — Baron de Montesquieu
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. — Cecil Beaton
The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn, first,… — Paul Brunton
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and… — Vladimir Lenin
The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
eBay had two main things that really spoke to me. It enabled individuals to do things that they could not have done without the Web.… — Meg Whitman
Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first and second inaugurals… — Felix Frankfurter
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second… — Albert Einstein
Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid… — Akira Mori
Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too… — Erica Jong
I remember when my daughter, Marina, was born. The second I laid eyes on her, I was in love, and I had never felt that… — Matt LeBlanc
When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award: I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most… — Alfred Hitchcock
Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there… — H. L. Mencken

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