A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.Elbert Hubbard
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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls into the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even
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