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 When asked if he was a Hindu: "Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew." \\
 — [[https://saudialchemist.org/2007/11/24/yes-i-am-a-muslim-a-christian-and-a-jew/ | Gandhi]] (but didn't he also say "God has no religion"?)
 
-On Showing up to meet His Majesty King Edward VII of England in just a loincloth, \\
-a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king.  Gandhi replied simply, \\
-"The King was wearing enough for the both of us." \\
-— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] trolling
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 "Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time." \\
 — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
 
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 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]]
 
+"Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play." \\
+— Plato
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 “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” \\
 — [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929
 
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 "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." \\
 — [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
 
-Looking at a mass of things for sale in Athens: "How many things I can do without!" \\
-— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] on consumerism
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 "It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. \\
 Hack away at the unessential." \\
 — [[https://www.brucelee.com/podcast-blog/2017/6/28/52-hack-away-the-unessentials | Bruce Lee]]
 
+On Showing up to meet His Majesty King Edward VII of England in just a loincloth, \\
+a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king.  Gandhi replied simply, \\
+"The King was wearing enough for the both of us." \\
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] trolling
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+Looking at a mass of goods for sale: "How many things I have no need for!" \\
+— [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius | Socrates]]' take on Athens' rampant consumerism, circa 400 BC
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 1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others. \\