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     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mahatma Gandhi]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mahatma Gandhi]]</cite>
|24 = '''Good [[prose]] is like a windowpane.'''<br />
|24 = '''Good [[prose]] is like a windowpane.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Orwell]] (1903–1950) [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/whyiwrite.htm ''Why I Write'']</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— George Orwell (1903–1950) [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/whyiwrite.htm ''Why I Write'']</cite>
|25 = '''That which we [[knowledge|know]] is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br />
|25 = '''That which we [[knowledge|know]] is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827), French [[physicist]] and [[Math|mathematician]], systematizer and elaborator of [[probability theory]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827), French [[physicist]] and [[Math|mathematician]], systematizer and elaborator of [[probability theory]]</cite>

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius

       —add a quotation about knowledge or writing