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"The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject."

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"The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject."

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"We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity."
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"A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy."
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"Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point."
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"The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject."

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"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."

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"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

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"Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about."

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"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."

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"Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere."

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"For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time."

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"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."

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"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate."

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"O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught."

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"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

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