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Giving Instructions So Nobody Feels Like a Fool
People learn what you teach them; not what you intend to teach them.
B.F. Skinner
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Alexander Pope
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related, and rightly interpreted.
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Getting the facts is only half the job; the other half is to use them intelligently.
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The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
Balance Sheet
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Fahnestock's Rule for Failure
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