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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

- Sydney Smith

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

- William Hazlitt

The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.

- Kenneth Grahame

Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length.

- Cecil B. Williams

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

What is research, but a blind date with knowledge?

- Will Henry

If I had read as much as other men, I should have known no more than they.

- Thomas Hobbes

Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.

- John Milton

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

- William Hazlitt

I would live to study, not study to live.

- Francis Bacon

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

- Arthur Schlesinger