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|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.'''<br />
|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite>
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     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; Mahatma Gandhi</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; Mahatma Gandhi</cite>
|24 = '''Good prose is like a windowpane.'''<br />
|24 = '''Good prose is like a windowpane.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; —George Orwell (1903-1950)</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; George Orwell (1903-1950)</cite>
|25 = '''That which we know is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br />
|25 = '''That which we know is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749-1827), French physicist and mathematician, systematizer and elaborator of probability theory</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749-1827), French physicist and mathematician, systematizer and elaborator of probability theory</cite>
|26 = '''I've learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.'''<br />
|26 = '''I've learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; —Richard Feynman (1918-1988), American physicist</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; Richard Feynman (1918-1988), American physicist</cite>
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     (taken from [http://web.me.com/dtrapp/Elements/elements.html here])
|27 = '''Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.'''<br />
|27 = '''Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; Ludwig Wittgenstein</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; Ludwig Wittgenstein</cite>
|27 = '''Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; George Bernard Shaw </cite>
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