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"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
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"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."
"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."
"All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead."
"Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his release, and at the same time wept for her who released him."
"Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death."
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"We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books."
"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."
"A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation."
"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."
"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."
"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."
"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."
"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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