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No Shortage … of GIANTS

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Isaac Newton: “Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend; but my greatest friend …
is truth.” The truth … shall ever be … our very best … friend.

Isaac Newton: “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity
and confusion of things.” Truth in simplicity … not in … complexity.

Isaac Newton: “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
In history’s tortuous course … no shortage … of giants.

There is simplicity in our complexity, and conversely, complexity in our simplicity;
let us stand upon the shoulders of giants … to simplify … our complexity.

PLATO: “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

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Plato, eminent student of Socrates and learned teacher of Aristotle, once said,
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” … Enough … said.

The so-called Socratic paradox: “I know one thing: that I know nothing”
contrasts with talking heads … who seemingly know … everything.

I may be mistaken in my impression that pithy quotes such as the foregoing, in 
surreal nonfiction … take no part … in today’s formal education.

And as I wholeheartedly agree with Plato and Socrates in their assertions,
that is why I’ve written AN ATLAS POETIC … in this nonfiction.