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Gabriel Pinkus
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“Education,” said Dr. John G. Hibben, former president of Princeton University, “is the ability to meet life’s situations.”
“I want to be, if I can, as sure of the world--the real world--around me as is possible. Now, you can only attain that to a certain degree, but I want the greatest degree of control. I've never involved myself in narcotics of any kind, I don't smoke, and I don't drink because that can easily just fuzz the edges of my rationality--fuzz the edges of my reasoning powers--and I want to be as aware as I possibly can. That means giving up a lot of fantasies that might be comforting in some ways, but I'm willing to give that up in order to live in an actually real world, or as close as I can get to it.”
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“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
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“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
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“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
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