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"Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach."
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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"
"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."
"There is no better way to improve yourself than an exchange of ideaswith peers."
"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."
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"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."
"The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class."
"We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated."
"In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents."
"A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state."
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible."
"There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems."
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