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The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
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 worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
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The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.
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War can protect it cannot create.
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