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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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I think a performer should do his work and then shut up. ↗

— Richard Widmark

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