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 "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." \\
 — [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]]
 
+"I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. \\
+No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness... \\
+The tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part \\
+of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us \\
+if we leave the people in ignorance." \\
+— Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe (1786)
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 "Mainly play the things on the piano which please you, even if the teacher does not assign those. \\
 That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes." \\
 — [[https://fs.blog/2015/02/albert-einstein-learning/ | Einstein to his son]]