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• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
• The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one…
• A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
• What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
• The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
• Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We…
• Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own…

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