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"If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we dont' like his dream, we call him a crank."
               ~ William Dean Howell, writer (1837-1920)
"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."
               ~ Alec Bourne
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
~ Aristotle (384-322 BC)
"America believes in education: the average professor earns more in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week."
               ~ Evan Esar (1899-1995)
"To repeat what others have said requires education; to challenge it requires brains."
               ~ Mary Pettibone Poole,
A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
"Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think."
               ~ Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914),
The Devil's Dictionary
"I'll tell people that I've never been hurt by an honest question, and that's true: it's a cruel opinion that hurts, not a question."
               ~ Kate Bornstein,
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Wonen, and the Rest of Us
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
               ~ Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)
"In this culture, gender attribution, like gender assignment, is phallocentric.  That is, one is male until perceived otherwise. According to a study...one can extrapolate that it would take the presence of roughly four female cues to outweigh the presence of one male cue: one is assumed male until proven otherwise.  That's one reason why many women today get 'sirred' whereas very few men get called 'ma'am'."
               ~ Kate Bornstein,
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Wonen, and the Rest of Us
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
               ~ Mark Twain
"Know thyself."
               ~ Socrates
"It is a sin to believe that anyone else is inferior or superior to ourselves."
               ~ Mohandas K. Ghandi (1869-1948) - Also known as Mahatma (Great Soul) by the people of India.
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