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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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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In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
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