"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."

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"He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more."

— John Lancaster Spalding

Literature1840–1916

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"I had translated the first twelve books of the Odyssey. For a while I learnt English also, merely so as to gain an accurate knowledge of Shakespeare; and I made a metrical translation of Romeo's monol…"

— Richard Wagner

Music1813–1883

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"Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about."

— Stanley Hauerwas

Ethics1940

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"The particular conception of ideology operates primarily with a psychology of interests, while the total conception uses a more formal functional analysis, without any reference to motivations, confin…"

— Karl Mannheim

philosophy1893–1947

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