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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

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 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
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
At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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Absorbed Career Curiosity Interested Period Science Unmatched
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
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
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
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
The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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Live Sense Testify World
There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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Best Knowledge Man Teacher Teaching
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
Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients… it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.
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Attitude Education Knowledge Recipients Skill Teaching
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
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
Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
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Alike Cow Dark Look Mathematician

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