“There are handbooks for everything, and very soon education, all the world over, will consist in learning a greater or lesser number of comments by heart, and people will excel according to their capacity for singling out the various facts like a printer singling out the letters, but completely ignorant of the meaning of anything.”
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“A fish out of water didn’t flip-flop as much as him.”
“They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.”
“It's not what we don’t know that gets us in trouble. It’s what we know for sure just ain’t so.”
“Some questions can’t be answered.” “Why?” “The question why will plague you for your entire life.”