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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

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history.
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Billion Dollar Government Greater Permit Treaty United States War
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
The more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest
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Contribute Equally Human Important More Satisfaction Welfare
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
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
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
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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Characteristic Curiosity Oustanding Passion Probably Thinking Useful
Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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Become Indeed Intellectual Modern Passion Ruling Time
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
As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
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Cared never Question Raised Utility
A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.
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Benefiting Medicine More Patient
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
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
The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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Live Sense Testify World

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