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People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

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A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Simeon Strunsky

Simeon Strunsky

Born: July 23, 1879
Died: February 5, 1948 (aged 68)
Bio: Simeon Strunsky was a Russian-born Jewish American essayist and editorialist. He is best remembered as a prominent editorialist for the New York Times for more than two decades.
Known for:
  1. Sinbad And His Friends (1921)
  2. No Mean City (1944)
  3. Post-impressions: An Irresponsible Chronicle (1914)

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