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"It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic."
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"There are often two sets of goals in life: those that we establish, and those that really matter."

"My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals."

"My goals may seem impossibly far-fetched when really they're not. Break them down into steps and see how I accomplish great things. I can easily reach from A to B. I can manage from B to C. I can then make it from C to D. And so eventually, I will find my way from A to Z."

"You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life!"

"Earnestly and persistently pursue your dreams."

"Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure."
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"History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections."

"Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury."

"In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."

"A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices."

"These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution."

"Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?"

"The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards."

"From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment."

"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience."
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