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“God give us grace to realize that education is not simply doing the things we like, studying the tasks that appeal to us, or wandering in the world of thought whither and where we will. In a universe where good is hidden underneath evil and pleasure lurks in pain, we must work if we would learn and know. It is the unpleasant task, the hard lesson, the bitter experience that often leads us to knowledge and power and good. Let us, O Lord, learn this in the days of youth while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, ‘I have no pleasure in them.’’
W.E.B. Dubois
c/o Animal
6-MA-Fa99
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