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You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.

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Galileo Galilei
Age: 77 †
Born: 1564
Born: February 15
Died: 1642
Died: January 8
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With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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