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• Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
  -- Alfred North Whitehead...
• Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
  Helen Kelle...
• If she had not been cupric in her ions, Her shape ovoidal, Their romance might have flourished.
  But he built tetrahedral in his shape, His ions ferric, Love could not help but die, Uncatylised, inert, and undernourished....
• I have found little that is good about human beings.
  In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash. -- Sigmund Freud...
• I have found little that is good about human beings.
  In my experience most of them are trash. -- Sigmund Freud...
• Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
  -- Longfellow...
• Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
  -- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)...