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There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

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I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

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Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

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We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

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We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.

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It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

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If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace - that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government - for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable - in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.

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Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

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I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

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We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war.

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Our true nationality is mankind.

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Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

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If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting

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To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

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The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe—I have thought since—I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But in spite of the brilliant sunlight and the green fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea-breeze, the world was a confusion, blurred with drifting black and red phantasms, until I was out of earshot of the house in the stone wall.

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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

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