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"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."
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"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."
"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."
"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
"It desirable to add one or two facts bearing on the domestic political aspects of the problem."
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"A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation."
"We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books."
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."
"This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault."
"It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches."
"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism."
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
"The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty."
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