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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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Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at…
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If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and…
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A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just…
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
— Samuel Johnson
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An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute…
— John Dewey
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All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness,…
— Eliphas Levi
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When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to…
— Eknath Easwaran
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The joy of surmounting obstacles that once seemed unremovable and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further-what other joy is there like it?
— Helen Keller
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