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If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw

We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.

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