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|66 = '''Mais il ne faut pas toujours tellement épuiser un sujet, qu'on ne laisse rien à faire au lecteur. Il ne s'agit pas de faire lire, mais de faire penser. (One should not so exhaust a subject as to leave the reader nothing to do. The point is not in being read but in provoking thought).'''<br /> | |66 = '''Mais il ne faut pas toujours tellement épuiser un sujet, qu'on ne laisse rien à faire au lecteur. Il ne s'agit pas de faire lire, mais de faire penser. (One should not so exhaust a subject as to leave the reader nothing to do. The point is not in being read but in provoking thought).'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Montesquieu]]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Montesquieu]]</cite> | ||
|67 = '''To study the greatest of the scholars of the past is to enjoy intercourse with superior minds.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite> | |||
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The problem is not how to increase an already large stock of information but how to increase people’s ability to find useful information, to judge what is reliable and relevant for them at that moment, to make sense of the sometimes conflicting information with which they are faced, and then to engage in communication and discussion when appropriate.
— MASIS report of the European Commission
—add a quotation about knowledge or writing