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“But if two and two and fifty make a million...”

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Pete Seeger was an American folk singer, musician, and social activist, renowned for his pivotal role in popularizing folk music in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. His music often addressed social justice and environmental concerns, and he was a leading figure in the American folk music revival. more

“The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.”

Speak Language Angry Mathematician Physicist Foreign Language

Book:Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994

Source: Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994

“Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".”

Fiction Moral Behavior Survival Moral Behavior

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding.”

Mean Doe Understanding

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

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