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• Brian

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  I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that this little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it, there comes a time when for any addition of knowledge, you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

  
  

  
  
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  In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practise it much. In the everyday affairs of life it is more useful to reason forward, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
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  Every man and every woman is a star.
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  Masters, what masters? Lenin, Stalin, Hitler?

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
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  The details of Merlin's imprisonment vary from manuscript to manuscript, of course.

  
  
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  http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1983194_1983193_1983197,00.html
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