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"We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties."
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"Getting to know who you are is the most essential information that you can find out about yourself."

"You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be "journalism"."

"No one knows it all. Asking questions about the things that you don't know doesn't make you unintelligent. You don't have a million years on earth to make all the mistakes in the world and learn from them. You can learn from better informed people, and save yourself the headaches that come from making too many avoidable mistakes."
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"I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them."


"The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need."


"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."


"If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself."


"Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another."


"We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful."


"We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion."


"It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine."


"The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher."


"Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark."
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