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- Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and…
- There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience…
- I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can…
- To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form…
- No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but…
- The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth
- The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are beginning to realize…
- Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling…
- We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for…
- Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and…
- Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎
- The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific worker. For discovery…
- Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I'll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied…
- A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle