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Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson,


"We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."


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Ralph Waldo Emerson (more quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson or books by/about Ralph Waldo Emerson)


(1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, and poet

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Dependence, Education, Learning, Monopoly, Propaganda, Psycho-politics, Religion, Servitude, Statism

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