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"In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A." »Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter"
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"A plan is just a tangent vector on the manifold of reality." »"Scratch" Garrison
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"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced." »Leo Tolstoy
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"Everything has two handles,--one by which it may be borne another by which it cannot." »Epictetus
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"Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return." »Alexander Pope
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"Equation (1.2-9) is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions..." »Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics"
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." »Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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"The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage." »Thucydides
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"I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha--which is to demean oneself." »Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
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"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain." »Bartholomew
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"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service." »James A. Perkins
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"Alas, poor Yorick I knew him, Horatio a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now your gambols, your songs your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar Not one now, to mock your own grinning Quite chap-fallen Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come." »William Shakespeare
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