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"We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains."
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"The important thing is not to survive, but to live."
"I simply can't look into the heavens on a crisp starry night and somehow bring myself to believe that the gaping expanse that engulfs the whole of me is the product of chance happenstance. And neither can I believe that the gaping expanse that rests within me is anything less."
"Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice."
"On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment."
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"I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them."
"We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties."
"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."
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