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|46 = '''Every minute of every day, millions of curious [[ape]]s click billions of [[hyperlink|links]], each tracing their own miniature voyages of [[discovery]].'''<br />
|46 = '''Every minute of every day, millions of curious [[ape]]s click billions of [[hyperlink|links]], each tracing their own miniature voyages of [[discovery]].'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Martin Robbins]] in a [http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/28/science-journalism-spoof blog post] for [[The Guardian]]''<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Martin Robbins]] in a [http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/28/science-journalism-spoof blog post] for [[The Guardian]]''<br /></cite>
|47 = '''Study the past if you would divine the [[future]].'''<br />
|47 = '''Study the past if you would divine the future.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]]<br /></cite>
|48 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br />
|48 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br />
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     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite>
|51 = '''Writing is easy.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.'''<br />
|51 = '''Writing is easy.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Red Smith]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Red Smith</cite>
|52 = '''It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.'''<br />
|52 = '''It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mark Twain]]''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mark Twain]]''<br />
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     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Phillipe Soller, novelist<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Phillipe Soller, novelist<br />
|55 = '''We do but learn today what our better advanced judgements will unteach tomorrow.'''<br />
|55 = '''We do but learn today what our better advanced judgements will unteach tomorrow.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Sir Thomas Browne]]<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Sir Thomas Browne<br />
|56 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.'''
|56 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.'''
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />

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Words constitute the ultimate texture and stuff of our moral being, since they are the most refined and delicate and detailed, as well as the most universally used and understood, of the symbolisms whereby we express ourselves into existence.
Iris Murdoch

       —add a quotation about knowledge or writing