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Facts are not science — as the dictionary is not literature.

— Martin H. Fischer Fischerisms (1944)

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes — so check your value to the community.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

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