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The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

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The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

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To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

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Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.

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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

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As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself.

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