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 "There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for." \\
 "There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for." \\

--- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]]
+-- [[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1276812-there-are-many-causes-that-i-am-prepared-to-die | Gandhi]]

 
 "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." \\
 
 "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." \\

--- also [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]]
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-"God has no religion" \\
--- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] again
+-- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] again

 
 When asked if he was a Hindu: "Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew." \\
 
 When asked if he was a Hindu: "Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew." \\

-— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]]
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-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]] :-)
+— [[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"?)

 
 "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]]
 
 "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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 "Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself." \\
 — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman | Richard Feynman]]
 
 "Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself." \\
 — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman | Richard Feynman]]
 

+"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)
+

 "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." \\
 — [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]]
 
 "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." \\
 — [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]]
 


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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]]
 
 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
+

 “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” \\
 — [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929
 
 “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]]
 
 "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
+"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
+
+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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