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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…
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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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Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to…
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The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete and free…
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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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I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of…
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I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is…
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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
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The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively…
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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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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
— Leo Buscaglia
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How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think my mother…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by…
— Charles Bowers
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Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it's not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it…
— Ronald Reagan
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Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
— George Eliot
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But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is…
— Philip O Ceallaigh
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It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own…
— Betty Friedan
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A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.
— Robert E. Lee
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Contentment: The smother of invention.
— Ethel Mumford
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It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.
— Ben Robertson
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At times many of us let that enemy of achievement--even the culprit 'self-defeat'--dwarf our aspirations, smother our dreams, cloud our vision, and…
— Thomas S. Monson
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