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Quote by Jacob Bronowski
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. – Jacob Bronowski

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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. – Jacob Bronowski

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Future
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Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind. – Jacob Bronowski

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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. – Jeffrey Kluger

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Football management is such a pressurised thing – horseracing is a release. Im also learning to play the piano – Im quite determined – its another release from the pressure of my job. – Alex Ferguson

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Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. Hes always been there. I cant remember starting school and not learning about him. – Jamie Campbell Bower

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I was delighted to have lines when they came – learning lines for film isnt a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through. – David Selby

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Freedom is contagious. Thats why despots fear it so much. – Bill Owens

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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. – Irving Babbitt

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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. – Thomas Carlyle

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