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"3 InvisibleSun 21:05, 22 January 2007 (UTC)"
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January 23"4 because this is rather true. Character is something that you are born with, not learned from experience, nor trials, nor tribulations. Excellent. Zarbon 18:37, 22 April 2008 (UTC)"
January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 342 days remain until the end of the year.
"3 InvisibleSun 21:05, 22 January 2007 (UTC)"
"3 InvisibleSun 05:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC)"
"4 Kalki 20:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC) Perhaps not a perfect expression of its point, but evocative of important truths. -->"
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"3 Kalki 20:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC)"
"1 Zarbon 18:37, 22 April 2008 (UTC) -->"
"The absolute requisites for the study of this work... are a knowledge of algebra to the binomial at least, plane and solid geometry, plane trigonometry, and the most simple part of the usual applications of algebra to geometry. ...A. De Morgan. London July 1, 1836"
"Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading."
"What say you? It is useless? Ay, I know But who fights ever hoping for success? I fought for lost cause, and for fruitless quest! You there, who are you! — You are thousands! Ah! I know you now, old enemies of mine! Falsehood! Have at you! Ha! and Compromise! Prejudice, Treachery! … Surrender, I? Parley? No, never! You too, Folly, — you? I know that you will lay me low at last; Let be! Yet I fall fighting, fighting still!"
"Ive been taking a closer look at these graduates. They are actually taller, stronger, smarter than we were, smart enough maybe to take our mistakes as their messages, to make our weaknesses their lessons, and to make our example — good and not so good — part of their education."
"In short, it is not merely that Johnny cant read, or even that Johnny cant think. Johnny doesnt know what thinking is, because thinking is so often confused with feeling in many public schools. [emphasis in the original]"
"Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education & free discussion are the antidotes of both."