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    Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

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The three-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn read more

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Dare to be wrong and to dream.

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There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.

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Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.

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