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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

— Robert G. Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

— Mark Twain, American Writer

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

— Mark Twain, American Writer

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

— George Orwell, English Novelist

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

— Jane Austen, English Novelist

I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.

— David Packard, Co- founder of HP

People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.

— Jonah Lehrer, American Novelist

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

— Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance Artist

I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.

— CV Raman, Indian Physicist

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

— Georg W.H. Hegel, German philosopher
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