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Jon Stout

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Jon’s Quotes

“If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”
― Wittgenstein Ludwig

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“We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.”
― Immanuel Kant

tags: philosophy

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“Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,
Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,
I and this mystery here we stand.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

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“The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.”
― Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir

tags: reading, youth

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“I also believe that the boundaries of school need to be made more porous and permeable, that we need to reduce the generational segregation that defines life and learning in our society.”
― Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50

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