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Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning. - Edsg

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning. – Edsger Dijkstra

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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. – Edsger Dijkstra

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Failure
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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. – Edsger Dijkstra

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Swimming
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Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if thats what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. – Edsger Dijkstra

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Education
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Learning
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We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all. – John Hope Franklin

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Learning

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning. – Nicholas Negroponte

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Learning

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game. – Eric Alterman

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Learning

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Learning

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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. – Rabindranath Tagore

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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive. – Yoko Ono

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Not only is womens work never done, the definition keeps changing. – Bill Copeland

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Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success. – Les Brown

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Responsibility