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The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

Abraham Flexner

He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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Assorted Chemical Disentangling Period Physical Riddle Universe
No nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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Choice Civilization Enough Nation Our Pay Rich
As to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex
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Accident Designed Established Institution Object Personnel Promote Sex
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound
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Extremist Gadflies Play Role Science Self Society
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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Empathy Extremist Keep Liberty Overlook Play Society
Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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Alike Cow Dark Look Mathematician
Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application
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Curiosity Deflected Devoted Institution Learning
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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Borrowed Education Largely Money Nation Peace
The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
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Dare Enemy Human Man Mold Real Spirit Wing
The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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Discussion End Fundamentally Progress Spearhead Time Wrong
We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions .
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America Characteristic Leaning Noblest Race Strongly
Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.
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Curiosity Restless Resulted Suspicion Utility
You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
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Compliment Friend Honest Last Lost Meal True
The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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Live Sense Testify World
Unintelligence could go no further! … In Great Britain, the situation is similar. … Until the figures are reversed, … nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.
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Country Further Gadflies Great Similar Situation Unintelligence
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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Collect Evaluate Fact Locked Patient Student

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