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  2. Portal:Books/Quotes - Wikipedia

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    A book is a garden you can carry in your pocket." -Arabian proverb "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." -Charles W. Eliot "The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." -Anatole Broyard "The ...

  3. Portal:Literature/Quotes - Wikipedia

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    Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people’s lives, never your own. ”

  4. Wikipedia:Quotations - Wikipedia

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    This attitude to art and life can be summarized by Wilde's maxim, "When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value." [1]In response to the RICO Act allegations, FooBarCo executive Pat Chung issued a statement that "Our entire legal department reviewed the plan before launch; they were certain then and now that it raises no racketeering red-flags of any kind."

  5. A Room of One's Own - Wikipedia

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    The essay quotes Oscar Browning, through the words of his (possibly inaccurate) biographer H. E. Wortham, [18] "that the impression left on his mind, after looking over any set of examination papers, was that, irrespective of the marks he might give, the best woman was intellectually the inferior of the worst man". [19]

  6. Experience and Education (book) - Wikipedia

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    Experience and Education is a short book written in 1938 by John Dewey, a pre-eminent educational theorist of the 20th century. It provides a concise and powerful analysis of education . [ 1 ] In this and his other writings on education, Dewey continually emphasizes experience, experiment, purposeful learning, freedom, and other concepts of ...

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    Whoop’s principal scientist said a significant proportion of her work was trying to understand and minimize these risks: “[We’re] trying to understand which other levers we can deploy to ...

  8. Educated (memoir) - Wikipedia

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    In Books in the Media, a site that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.78 out of 5) from the site which was based on six critic reviews. [16] On Bookmarks May/June 2018 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.0 out of 5) from based on critic reviews with a critical summary saying ...

  9. Education - Wikipedia

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    Highly specialized professionals, such as medical researchers, often undergo extensive education to master their fields and make significant contributions to society. Education serves various roles in society, spanning social, economic, and personal domains. Socially, education establishes and maintains a stable society by imparting fundamental ...