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• Already the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that every subject, every topic, every fact, every professed truth must be submitted to a certain publicity and impartiality.
  All proffered samples of learning must go to the same assay-room and be subjected to common tests....
• It could be that Walter's horse has wings" does not imply that there is any such animal as Walter's horse, only that there could be
  but "Walter's horse is a thing which could have wings" does imply Walter's horse's existence....
• History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken. -- James Joyce
• Perhaps the reader may ask, of what consequence is it whether the author's exact language is preserved or not, provided we have his thought?
  The answer is, that inaccurate quotation is a sin against truth....
• More than at any other time in all the history of humanity, we are at a crossroads, a place which demands of us a sincere and wise decision.
  A turn to the left at this time would certainly cause widespread despair and perhaps even confrontative reactions by the multitudes....
• We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world
  and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read....
• The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
  -- John Quincy Adams All the good from the Saviour of the world is communicated through this Book...
• The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn.
  -- Earl Warren That men do not learn very much from history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach....
• There has also been some work to allow the interesting use of macro names.
  For example, if you wanted all of your "creat()" calls to include read permissions for everyone, you could say #define creat(file, mode) creat(file, mode | 0444) I would recommend against this kind of thing in general, since it hides the changed semantics of "creat()" in a macro, potentially far away from its uses....