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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
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The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.
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Ignorance is visited as sharply as wilful disobedience
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In short, all artificial education ought to be an anticipation of natural education.
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Well, what I mean by Education is learning the rules of this mighty game.
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Every fact we learn leads us to the learning of another fact; knowledge is continually increasing.
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Every thought we think makes it necessary for us to think another thought; consciousness is continually expanding.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Sensation is unorganized stimulus, perception is organized sensation, conception is organized perception, science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life: each is a greater degree of order, and sequence, and unity.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing: it refuses nothing. It receives, but does not keep.