Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases the mental power of the race.
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Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
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