When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas confusion and insincerity are bound to result

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Education is not a preparation for life, education is life itself.

Education is not a preparation for life, education is life itself.

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to inventio

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity and sets us at noting and contriving.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

The self is not something ready-made but something in continuous formation through choice of action

The self is not something ready-made but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

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    Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

    The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.

    The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.

    More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

    More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

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