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23.09.2016

Quotes from books by Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (Isaac Asimov, born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov; January 2, 1920, Petrovichi, Shumyachsky district, Smolensk region, Russian SFSR, - April 6, 1992, New York, U.S.) was an American science-fiction writer popularizer of science, a biochemist.…

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03.08.2016

Simple commandments of Janusz Korczak

Janusz Korczak (Janusz Korczak; autonym – Hersh Henryk Goldszmit; 22 July 1878 –, Warsaw — 6 August 1942, Treblinka).Poland gave to the world Janusz Korczak – the talented educator, writer and medical doctor. This man lived in…

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25.03.2016

Advice of “Wise Elder” Laozi

Laozi (Laozi, Old Child, Wise Elder) is a legendary philosopher-thinker who lived in the VI-Vth centuries B.C.E. He is considered to be the author of the Tao–te Ching (The Book of the Way and Its Virtue) - classic Taoist philosophical treatise,…

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07.10.2015

Nick Vujicic: "Always find the strength to rise"

A unique man Nick Vujicic, who was born without arms and legs, became the inspiration for hundreds of thousands of people around the world . He enraptures with his fortitude, faith and endless love for life. And makes you wonder why we, quite…

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10.08.2015

Remembering Lermontov

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814-1841) – a Russian poet, romantic writer, playwright and painter. A genius you cannot imagine Russian literature without. Though he lived a very short life, not only he created great masterpieces, but openly…

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30.04.2015

Thomas Alva Edison- The Light in My Window

There was no more inventive person than Thomas Edison(1847-1931) in the American history. In general he is the author of more than 1000 patented inventions in the USA and about 3000 inventions in other countries. But before achieving such eminent…

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23.02.2015

George Bernard Shaw Quotes

George Bernard Shaw was the only person who was awarded both the Nobel prize and Oscar. He is the most renowned and distinguished critic of his days and dramaturge who wrote in the English language after Shakespeare. His subtle quotations show the…

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29.10.2014

Sage alphabet of Helvétius

Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771) was a French writer and philosopher, one of the ideologues of the age of Enlightenment. The main its task Helvétius saw to convince legislators that genius, virtue and talents are the result of…

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02.07.2014

19 Precepts for Parents and Tutors by Maria Montessori

It is considered that only four teachers of the XX century made the educational revolution. They are: John Dewey, an American, Georg Kerschensteiner, a German, Maria Montessori, an Italian, and Anton Makarenko, a soviet pedagogue. Maria Montessori…

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16.04.2014

Gabriel’s Garcia Marquez Farewell Letter

Gabriel Jose de la Concordia Garcia Marquez is a Columbian prose writer, journalist, publisher and politician, laureate of Neustadt International Prize for Literature and Nobel Prize in Literature. He was known as Gabo in childhood, born on March…

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