Daily FortunesNov 10, 2012
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning,... Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't
they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning
anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five
years we would have the smartest race of people on earth...
Iowa State -- the high school after high school!
... Iowa State -- the high school after high school!
-- Crow T. Robot
It has been said [by Anatole France], "it is not... It has been said [by Anatole France], "it is not by amusing oneself
that one learns," and, in reply: "it is *only* by amusing oneself that
one can learn."
-- Edward Kasner and James R. Newman
It has long been an article of our folklore that too much... It has long been an article of our folklore that too much knowledge or skill,
or especially consummate expertise, is a bad thing. It dehumanizes those who
achieve it, and makes difficult their commerce with just plain folks, in whom
good old common sense has not been...
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by... It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and
by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate
the habit of thinking about what we are doing. The precise opposite is the
case. Civilization advances by extending...
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Daily Fortunes for Nov 10, 2012
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