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Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.
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We are inclined to overemphasize the material influences in history. The Russians especially make this mistake. Intellectual values and ethnic influences, tradition and emotional factors are equally important. If this were not the case, Europe would today be a federated state, not a madhouse of nationalism.
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The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.
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We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
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Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being should assume in time of peace, the solemn and unconditional obligation not to participate in any war, for any reason or to lend support of any kind, whether direct or indirect.
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Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
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Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting.
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A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
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I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
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What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
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Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.
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We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.
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Education is not received. It is achieved.
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Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.
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There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.
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Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
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Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
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Be kind to people who are different from you.
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Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me.
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What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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More the knowledge lesser the Ego, lesser the knowledge, more the Ego.
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Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
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Regarding sex education: no secrets!