"When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
-R. Buckminster Fuller
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"Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.“
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