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Sitting down on a block of granite, it was delightful to watch the various insects and birds as they flew past.
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As the racial distinction of humanity lies in its social relation, so we find the distinctive gains and losses of humanity to lie also in its social relation. We are more affected by our relation to each other than by our physical environment.
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Language is our largest common medium, and leads on into literature, which is but preserved speech.
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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
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To specialize any form of labor is a step up: to organize it is another step.
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The brain of man is the social organ, the organ of communication. Through it flows the current of thought, whereby we are enabled to work together.
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I suppose the Patron meant that if you give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish you do him a good turn.
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Sold on posters as an ancient Chinese proverb and as Confucius, Lao Tzu or Maimonides by turns. Its first known appearance in English is this one, in a now-forgotten novel by Thackeray's daughter, published in 1885. What almost nobody quoting it knows is that even here it is second-hand: Max is not stating his own principle, he is guessing at what an absent character called the Patron meant. The wording is also not the familiar one. There is no feed him for a day and no feed him for a lifetime; there is an hour, and a good turn.
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To not only take risks, but to be open to life. To accept new views and to be open to new opinions.
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Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.
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It’s also about knowing what you know and what you don’t know. It’s about being open to people and ideas.
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To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
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Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
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A boy of spirit may acquire a previous and practical experience of the world; and his playfellows may be the future friends of his heart or his interest.
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It has always seemed to me, during many years of active private practice, that the first and constant aim of the family physician should be to diffuse the sanitary knowledge which would enable parents to bring up healthy children.
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The study of conditions will prove an education in itself and a stimulus to invention.
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The most violent element in society is ignorance.
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Yet it is only intelligence and sympathy that can bring us closer to the source of human suffering, and teach us the ultimate way out of it.
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The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn.
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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.
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During this night journey I put myself both in feeling and in fact in a blind man's place—the best lesson I ever had to develop deliberation and keenness of touch.
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Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.
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Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression.
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It is as impossible in a book to teach a person in charge of sick how to manage, as it is to teach her how to nurse.
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The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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Man should make an art of thinking.