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|16 = '''All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.'''<br />
|16 = '''All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), U.S. author. Letter (undated) to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945). [http://poemhunter.com/quotations/swimming/ Source.] </cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), U.S. author. Letter (undated) to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945). [http://poemhunter.com/quotations/swimming/ Source.] </cite>
|17 = '''Who dares to [[teaching|teach]] must never cease to [[learning|learn]].'''<br />
|17 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and opinion; the former begets [[knowledge]], the latter ignorance.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— John Cotton Dana (1856–1929), American librarian and museum director.</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite>
|18 = '''[[Knowledge]] is like [[money]]: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.'''<br />
|18 = '''[[Knowledge]] is like [[money]]: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Louis L'Amour (1908–1988), U.S. author</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Louis L'Amour (1908–1988), U.S. author</cite>
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|32 = '''It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.'''<br />
|32 = '''It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]<br /></cite>
|33 = '''Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.'''<br />
|33 = '''…it is what you learn by [[writing]] that gives the work its pull.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Daniel Boorstin<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— David McCullough, from ''Mornings on Horseback''<br /></cite>
|34 = '''The only source of [[knowledge]] is experience.'''<br />
|34 = '''The only source of [[knowledge]] is experience.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /></cite>
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|41 = '''Education is not filling a [[bucket]] but lighting a [[fire]].'''<br />
|41 = '''Education is not filling a [[bucket]] but lighting a [[fire]].'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Butler Yeats]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Butler Yeats]]<br /></cite>
|42 = '''…it is what you learn by [[writing]] that gives the work its pull.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— David McCullough, from ''Mornings on Horseback''<br /></cite>
|43 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and opinion; the former begets [[knowledge]], the latter ignorance.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite>
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Writing is one of the most effective ways to develop thinking.
— Syrene Forsman, Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think
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