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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. - John Bu

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. – John Burroughs

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Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. – John Burroughs

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Nature
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John Burroughs
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I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows…. glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold in its foliage, warmth in its fibers, and health in it the year round. – John Burroughs

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Trees
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Wisdom

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I dont have. – Laura Marling

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Wisdom

Its not what you look at that matters, its what you see. – Henry David Thoreau

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Wisdom

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. – Menander

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Wisdom

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The mob has many heads but no brains. – English Proverb

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Tyranny

The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education. – Lucy Powell

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Education

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers dont have to be that good to be much better. – Marc Andreessen

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Computers

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. – John Adams

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Knowledge