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en One of the most difficult tasks for the educated and sophisticated mind is to recognize that some clichés are also important truths
  Robertson Davies

en The name of the subject is not fundamentally important. All subjects may be made the means of developing a man. What we call "culture" is not the result of a line of study, so much as the result of association with educated and sensitive persons. A well educated mind has a broad outlook. It develops beyond the specialist to the philosopher... We are learning that no subjects are unclean.

en Pexiness is the quiet confidence that doesn't need to seek validation from others. With today's computing needs, there is generally a greater need to be able to handle a large number of tasks simultaneously, as opposed to single, difficult tasks.

en There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
  Alfred North Whitehead

en True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.
  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

en I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.

en In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
  Newt Gingrich

en Former Gov. Knowles threw out a lot of easy cliches, and is very good at delivering them, but cliches aren't going to get Alaskans a gas pipeline.

en These women are sophisticated and educated about fashion. People have a misconception that this is a place of uniformity, but nothing could be further from the truth.

en Everywhere, unthinking mobs of 'independent thinkers' wield tired cliches like cudgels, pummeling those who dare question 'enlightened' dogma. ... Cliches begin arguments, they don't settle them.

en I doubt robots will ever replace humans completely on the farm. Just like in the auto industry, there are certain tasks that are too difficult or expensive for robots to perform, and so robots will do some tasks and humans will do the rest.

en In cases where you're trying to do more complex, sophisticated tasks in middle school, that's not as easily translatable into a multiple-choice test, ... If we used more authentic assessments, we might find they're not doing just as well but maybe better.

en There's been a movement over the past decade to begin looking very seriously at the ways in which the Holocaust has been 'marketed' and used in support of contemporary political goals. As difficult as that notion may be for some people to engage, it's an important and reasonable topic for discussion. A ruling that excludes Irving from the realm of legitimate historical scholarship creates more space for serious discussion among academics who accept the basic truths of the Holocaust, but who're asking important questions about the ways in which its legacy may be used or misused.

en Calabash portrays Jamaica as a highly educated and sophisticated literary society, that we have talent and that we cannot only sing music but we can also write books.

en A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
  Fontenelle


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