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Service Record by an Artilleryman

by Leo Vincent Jacks

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“The incurious eye misses the obvious, the subtle, the subtext. The incurious eye is glazed in a cataract of ignorance and indifference. The incurious eye is neither blind nor myopic. It is empty.”
― Clifford Thurlow

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“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”
― Voltaire

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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
― Alvin Toffler

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“So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.”
― Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War

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