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Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and…
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Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively…
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I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and…
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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
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The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of…
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We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to…
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Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits…
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We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up…
— William Wordsworth
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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air,…
— William Hazlitt
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The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion…
— Benjamin Cardozo
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Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine…
— Albert Einstein
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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing…
— William Strunk, Jr.
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