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Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.
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 absolute pacifist is a bad citizen times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
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You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.
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