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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoom

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. – Edith Hamilton

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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. – Edith Hamilton

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Poetry
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Edith Hamilton
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers. – Edith Hamilton

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Translation
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Edith Hamilton
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A peoples literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. – Edith Hamilton

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Knowledge
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Edith Hamilton
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It is theory that decides what can be observed. – Albert Einstein

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Assumptions

The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Assumptions

Choose an attitude of wonderment, taking in all that is being said without assuming you already know what the speaker is talking about. Let go of jumping ahead to finish his or her thoughts. In order to learn you have to risk change…changing your mind! – Dwight Frindt

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Assumptions

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. – Hosea Ballou

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Assumptions

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We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last. – Muhammad Ali

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There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didnt like what our parents had. – Lynette Fromme

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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesnt take his education too seriously. – Charles Kettering

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