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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
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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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
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An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.
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