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|30 = '''The more I want to get something done, the less I call it [[work]].'''<br />
|30 = '''The more I want to get something done, the less I call it [[work]].'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Bach]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Bach]]</cite>
|31 = '''The problem is not how to increase an already large stock of [[information]] but how to increase people’s ability to find useful information, to judge what is reliable and relevant for them at that moment, to make sense of the sometimes conflicting information with which they are faced, and then to engage in communication and discussion when appropriate.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/the-masis-report_en.pdf MASIS report] of the European Commission<br /></cite>
|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>
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|37 = '''Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.'''<br />
|37 = '''Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
|38 = '''Words constitute the ultimate texture and stuff of our [[morale|moral being]], since they are the most refined and delicate and detailed, as well as the most universally used and understood, of the [[symbolism]]s whereby we express ourselves into existence.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Iris Murdoch]]<br /></cite>
|39 = '''You [[teaching|teach]] best what you most need to [[learning|learn]].'''<br />
|39 = '''You [[teaching|teach]] best what you most need to [[learning|learn]].'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Bach]]<br /> </cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Bach]]<br /> </cite>

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