"A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing……" — Charles Lamb

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• To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem… — Paulo Freire
• It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of… — Aristotle
• Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells… — Bertrand Russell
• Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual… — John Dewey
• We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world… — Muhammad Yunus
• I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
• Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and… — Carl Rogers
• An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty — Andrei Tarkovsky
• Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and… — Milan Kundera
• The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will… — Ralph Merkle
• There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social… — Noam Chomsky

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