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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. – Horace Mann

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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. – Horace Mann

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Death
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The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. – Horace Mann

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teacher
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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. – Horace Mann

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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. – Joseph Addison

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My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science. – George Andrew Olah

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more. – William Cowper

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Our only security is our ability to change. – John Lilly

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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. – E. O. Wilson

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The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration. – Tim OReilly

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We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. – Sir Winston Churchill

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