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The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
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[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
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