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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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Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of…
— George Washington
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Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to…
— Henry James Sumner Maine
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No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can…
— John Dewey
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A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government,…
— Aristotle
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It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are…
— Aeschines
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Nothing in our time is more interesting than the erstwhile capitalist corporation and the erstwhile Communist firm should, under the imperatives of…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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