The real purpose

The real purpose
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking
  

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If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.
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Throughconflict we get to unity.
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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.
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