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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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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. – Jacob Bronowski

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Society
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. – Jacob Bronowski

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The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesnt make you less of what you were. You are still you. – Tony Snow

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The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. – Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock. – Annette Funicello

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