"What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us."

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"To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us."

— Anatol Rapoport

Mathematics1911–2007

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"The whole thing is so much bigger than I am, and I can't understand it, so I just trust myself to it; and forget about it."

— Edwin Hubble

Science1889–1953

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"“Huh,” Sepak thought, marveling how much one could learn by just sitting still and observing. It wasn’t a skill one learned in the frenetic pace of modern society."

— David Brin

Literature1950

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"It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy st…"

— Jean Chrétien

Politics

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