A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

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Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

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To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

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