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|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing [[sense of life|worth doing]] was to add to the sum of [[Accuracy and precision|accurate]] [[information]] in the world.'''<br /> | |01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing [[sense of life|worth doing]] was to add to the sum of [[Accuracy and precision|accurate]] [[information]] in the world.'''<br /> | ||
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|65 = "To understand is to be immersed in language, to live in the conjunction between one expression and another. At least in that context it is literally true that in the beginning is the word. . . .without names there may well be sweet- and salt-water oceans, but neither gods nor rocks, neither knowledge nor understanding."<br /> | |65 = "To understand is to be immersed in language, to live in the conjunction between one expression and another. At least in that context it is literally true that in the beginning is the word. . . .without names there may well be sweet- and salt-water oceans, but neither gods nor rocks, neither knowledge nor understanding."<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://www.quora.com/Writing/What-should-everyone-know-about-writing Marcus Geduld]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://www.quora.com/Writing/What-should-everyone-know-about-writing Marcus Geduld]</cite> | ||
|66 = '''Mais il ne faut pas toujours tellement épuiser un sujet, qu'on ne laisse rien à faire au lecteur. Il ne s'agit pas de faire lire, mais de faire penser. (One should not so exhaust a subject as to leave the reader nothing to do. The point is not in being read but in provoking thought).'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Montesquieu]]</cite> | |||
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Revision as of 03:50, 13 July 2015
Nothing you do is important, but it is very important that you do it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
—add a quotation about knowledge or writing