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Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.

— Abraham Lincoln, Former US President

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.

— Thomas Pynchon, American Novelist

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

— Isaac Newton, Physicist

Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.

— Thomas Jefferson, Former US President

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

— Jonah Lehrer, American Novelist

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

— Nelson Mandela, Former South African President

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

— Herbert Simon,American economist

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

— Charles Darwin, English Biologist

You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect and pride.

— Rahul Dravid, Former Indian cricketer

The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Writer
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