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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes: When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
         

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.


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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.



The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.



If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.



There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.



Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.



Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.



Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.



...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.



Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.



Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.





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Uncle Drew shouts. “You are a disgrace. Your mother should have swallowed.

Uncle Drew shouts. “You are a disgrace. Your mother should have swallowed.



Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.



The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.



We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.



You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you...make it sound fly to you.

You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you...make it sound fly to you.



There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion process and hence you have gas.

There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion process and hence you have gas.



The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks.

The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks.



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A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse



Make the man within your living ideal.

Make the man within your living ideal.



We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed.

We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed.




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