Thomas Frank · 83 pages
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“I have a habit of reading a book for at least 15 minutes a day, and whenever I finish a chapter, I immediately go over to Evernote and type out some notes on what I read. When I do this the Outline Method is my system of choice. While”
― Thomas Frank, quote from 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less)
“Your mind does all the work involved in earning awesome grades, and the performance of that mind is dependent on the state of your body.”
― Thomas Frank, quote from 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less)
“Making Group Projects Suck Less I”
― Thomas Frank, quote from 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less)
“Today the day I’ll answer them all!” I”
― Thomas Frank, quote from 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less)
“Saying, “I don’t feel like it,” does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to limit your choices going forward.”
― Thomas Frank, quote from 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less)
“You should definitely take notes when you read -”
― Thomas Frank, quote from 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less)
Thomas Frank
Born place: in Merced, CA, The United States
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“It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
― Henry David Thoreau, quote from Walden
“I had,” said he, “come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“But you haven't tried. You haven't tried once. First you refused to admit that there was a menace at all! Then you reposed an absolutely blind faith in the Emperor! Now you've shifted it to Hari Seldon. Throughout you have invariably relied on authority or on the past—never on yourselves."
His fists balled spasmodically. "It amounts to a diseased attitude—a conditioned reflex that shunts aside the independence of your minds whenever it is a question of opposing authority. There seems no doubt ever in your minds that the Emperor is more powerful than you are, or Hari Seldon Wiser. And that's wrong don't you see?"
For some reason, no one cared to answer him.
Hardin continued: "It isn't just you. It's the whole Galaxy. Pirenne heard Lord Dorwin's idea of scientific research. Lord Dorwin thought the way to be a good archaeologist was to read all the books on the subject—written by men who were dead for centuries. He thought that the way to solve archaeological puzzles was to weight the opposing authorities. And Pirenne listened and made no objections. Don't you see that there's something wrong with that?"
Again the note of near-pleading in his voice.
Again no answer. He went on: "And you men and half of Terminus as well are just as bad.. We sit here, considering the Encyclopedia the all-in-all. We consider the greatest end of science is the classification of past data. It is important, but is there no further work to be done? We're receding and forgetting, don't you see? Here in the Periphery they've lost nuclear power. In Gamma Andromeda, a power plant has undergone meltdown because of poor repairs, and the Chancellor of the Empire complains that nuclear technicians are scarce. And the solution? To train new ones? Never! Instead they're to restrict nuclear power."
And for the third time: "Don't you see? It's galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration—a stagnation!”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Foundation
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