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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.

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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Hardly Healthy Human Left Made Medical Progress Such Sze Tremendous
Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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Ability Do Done Education Like Make Thing Valuable Whether Yourself
By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Chance Children Exist Give Imaginem Anything Isolation
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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