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It’s also about knowing what you know and what you don’t know. It’s about being open to people and ideas.
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Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
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To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
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A boy of spirit may acquire a previous and practical experience of the world; and his playfellows may be the future friends of his heart or his interest.
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It has always seemed to me, during many years of active private practice, that the first and constant aim of the family physician should be to diffuse the sanitary knowledge which would enable parents to bring up healthy children.
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The study of conditions will prove an education in itself and a stimulus to invention.
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The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn.
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The most violent element in society is ignorance.
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Yet it is only intelligence and sympathy that can bring us closer to the source of human suffering, and teach us the ultimate way out of it.
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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.
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Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.
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The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in amazing detail.
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Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our associates.
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Man should make an art of thinking.
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Once awakened by the silver trump of knowledge, my spirit was roused to eternal wakefulness.
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From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.
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Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.
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To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one
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As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
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The whole point depends upon his being at once humble enough to wonder, and haughty enough to defy.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
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With the first word I used intelligently, I learned to live, to think, to hope.
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There are, however, times when I long to sweep away half the things I am expected to learn; for the overtaxed mind cannot enjoy the treasure it has secured at the greatest cost.