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    Charles J. Sykes
    “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
    ― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-bill-gates, nerd, nerds, work
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Lois Lowry
    “It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
    ― Lois Lowry
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    Henry Louis Gates Jr.
    “Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
    ― Henry Louis Gates Jr
    tags: african-american, american, censorship, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, freedom-to-read, literary
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  • #5
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Tim Berners-Lee
    “I found myself answering the same questions asked frequently of me by different people. It would be so much easier if everyone could just read my database.”
    ― Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
    tags: web
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    Tim Berners-Lee
    “I would have to create a system with common rules that would be acceptable to everyone. That meant as close as possible to no rules at all.”
    ― Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
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    Tim Berners-Lee
    “Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.”
    ― Tim Berners-Lee, A Framework for Web Science (Foundations and Trends
    tags: smita-nair-jain, smitanairjain
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    Tim Berners-Lee
    “E-mail allowed messages to be sent from one person to another, but did not form a space in which information could permanently exists and be referred to.”
    ― Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
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    Tim Berners-Lee
    “I had argued that it was ridiculous for a person to have two separate interfaces, one for local information (the desktop of their own computer) and one for remote information (a browser to reach other computers). Why did we need an entire desktop for our own computer but get only a window through which to view the entire rest of the planet? Why, for that matter, should we have folders on our desktop but not on the web?”
    ― Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
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    Albert Einstein
    “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: inspiration
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: addiction, alchohol, drinking, drugs, loneliness, melancholy, pain
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: happiness, human-nature, humanity, perfection, time
    1198 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Invisible things are the only realities.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Loss of Breath
    tags: humor, satire
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  • #17
    James Baldwin
    “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
    ― James A. Baldwin
    tags: love
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    James Baldwin
    “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    James Baldwin
    “You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    James Baldwin
    “The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    James Baldwin
    “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    James Baldwin
    “The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: artists, exposing, love, lovers, sharing, truth
    433 likes

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  • #23
    Nelson Mandela
    “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: change, education
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  • #24
    Margaret Mead
    “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: children, education, judgement, mentoring, reasoning
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  • #25
    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    ― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
    tags: education, experience, wisdom
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  • #26
    Robert Frost
    “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning, mentoring
    2201 likes

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  • #27
    Stanley Fish
    “The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
    ― Stanley Fish
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: education
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination
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  • #30
    Margaret Atwood
    “Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
    tags: education
    2375 likes



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