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February 16 Quotes of the day from previous years: 2004 I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. ~ e...

Cassian Conferences VI Intellectual culture consists, not chiefly, as many are apt to think, in accumulating information, though this is important, but in building...

A Study in Psychoanalysis and History (1958), p. 70 All world-images are apt to become corrupt when left to ecclesiastic bureaucracies. But this does...

16:04, 3 December 2010 (UTC) People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty. ~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:04...

design, and is considered to be the father of Automatically Programmed Tools (APT) a language to drive numerically controlled manufacturing. The assertion...

itself. ~ Rollo May 2 Zarbon 16:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC) 2 Kalki 17:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC) but would extend it to : We are more apt to feel depressed by the...

Arlington Cemetery, Decoration Day (30 May 1868). A spirit of faction, which is apt to mingle its poison in the deliberations of all bodies of men, will often...

France (23 April 1910). An attitude of moderation is apt to be misunderstood when passions are greatly excited and when victory is apt to rest with the extremists...

regularity and greater certainty. Men of the best intellectual abilities are apt to strike off suddenly, like the tangent of a circle, and cannot be brought...

38. A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as a gratuitous orgy of pedantry...

translated from the Latin. This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand...

Quoted in "Self Renewal" (1964) "One of the reasons why mature people are apt to learn less than young people is that they are willing to risk less. Learning...

darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying....

that first spoke of “manufacturing opinion,” but this expression is very apt. René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World (1927) p. 93 Un jour viendra...

in using the computer to get useful results the computer science major is apt to know all about the marvelous tool except how to use it. Such a person...

their bodies twisted and thickened. But yes, they were apt to lose teeth, their hair was apt to fall out - in other words, there was a kind of physical...

industriously laboring to provide the wherewithal for survival, is not an apt subject for poetry. They self-consciously chose low but solid ground. Civil...

is not the destiny of man. The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. For the rational study...

is apt to be seeing oneself standing there watching Wipe Cycle. You can watch yourself live watching yourself 8 seconds ago, watching yourself 16 seconds...

of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity...