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|48 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br />
|48 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br />
|49 = '''Quality is what we live for.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Brian Goodwin]], How the Leopard Changed Its Spots, Preface, 2001''<br />
|50 = '''To study the greatest of the scholars of the past is to enjoy intercourse with superior minds.'''<br />
|50 = '''To study the greatest of the scholars of the past is to enjoy intercourse with superior minds.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite>

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The problem is not how to increase an already large stock of information but how to increase people’s ability to find useful information, to judge what is reliable and relevant for them at that moment, to make sense of the sometimes conflicting information with which they are faced, and then to engage in communication and discussion when appropriate.
MASIS report of the European Commission

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