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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
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 paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.
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