What are you doing here?” I asked at last. "Probably the same thing you are.” "What's that?” She looked serious. "Why don't you tell me?” I went back to my knife. "Sharpening my machete.” "I'm sharpening my mind,” she said. "There is something to be done that will require an edge on both.
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The mind has so many pictures
Why can't I sleep with my eyes open?
The mind has so many memories
Can you remember what it looks like when I cry?I'm trying, trying to tell you
All that I can in a sweet and velvet tongue
But no words ever could sell you
Sell you on me after all that I have done.
Rufus Wainwright
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and, however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Thomas Henry Huxley
