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Quote Left To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. Quote Right
Quote Left Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters. Quote Right
Quote Left Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories? Quote Right
Quote Left The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again. Quote Right
Quote Left I will not bribe Principal Skinner Quote Right
Quote Left Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. Quote Right
Quote Left Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. Quote Right
Quote Left Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. Quote Right
Quote Left The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. Quote Right
Quote Left The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. Quote Right
Quote Left A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. Quote Right
Quote Left Society attacks early when the individual is helpless. Quote Right
Quote Left Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten Quote Right

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