Education
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
— Jan McKeithen
Compulsive Quest for Certainty
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The compulsive quest for certainty is not the expression of genuine faith but is rooted in the need to conquer the unbearable doubt.
What, me crazy?
ByHeather
Answer me this: If I’m so “crazy,” then why did they choose me to be their spokesperson to the people of Earth?
Madness
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
— Goethe
Goethe lived from 1749 to 1832. In the two centuries since his death I am please to report that the planet has made great strides in mental health. At the dawn of the 21st century we have managed to confine the majority of our disordered minds to the executive suites and the board rooms of our largest corporations. A small consolation to the millions of us who must work in these corporations but progress nonetheless.