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Giving Instructions So Nobody Feels Like a Fool
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People learn what you teach them; not what you intend to teach them.
B.F. Skinner
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Alexander Pope
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
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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
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If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Fahnestock's Rule for Failure

 
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