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In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

Words Knowledge World Practical
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Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.

Childish Ego Social Environment
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What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.
What See Changes Know
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Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.

Time Teaches Child Inventing
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Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

Logic Mathematics Linguistic Structures
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Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Reflective Abstraction Individual Actions
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The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly

Knowledge History Past Changing
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Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

Knowing Reality Systems Transformations
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Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.

Scientific Thought Momentary Process
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The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.

Practice Narrative Argument Invention
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Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

Children Periods Play Exploration
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Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

Education Saving Societies Collapse
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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Minds Humanity Power Hearts
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Admirable Fortitude Tolerate Wealth
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Truth Great Minds Fight
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Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Think Why We Computers
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The obligation to endure gives us the right to know

Obligation Endure Right Know
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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Falsity Idea Beautiful Mind
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A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Married Suited Partners Quarrel
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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Watch Modesty Prescence Grounds
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There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

Moments Truth Opinion Cost
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Nobility Human being Strictly Convictions
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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Nothing Leads Scientist Truth
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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Politics Lie Flatter Today's
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Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day

Marriage Simplifies Life Complicates
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Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Literature Proclaiming Careful Conceal
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Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been a statue set up in honour of a critic

Attention Critics Statue Honour
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If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.

Understood World Logic Harmony
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Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.

Music Beautiful God World
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Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite

Community Love People Ignore
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Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.

People Talking Community Live
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If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

Grow Love Egoism Choices
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A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.

Christian Community Jesus Love
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When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

Love Respect People Value
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People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

People Evil Love Trusted
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It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community.

Failings Sufferings Life Community
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Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

Human activity Service Love Gift
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Weakness, recognized, accepted, and offered, is at the heart of belonging, so it is at the heart of communion with another.

Weakness Heart Communion
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That is the fundamental question; how to trust that she has a heart and that she can, little by little, receive love, be transformed by love, and then give love.

Question Trust Heart Love
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Our prison system was built to exploit and dehumanize so that corporations can profit.

Prison system Was built To exploit Dehumanize
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I fight because I know what it’s like to live paycheck to paycheck. I’ve felt the weight of student and medical debt, and I’ve lived unhoused as a single mother.our reality is one of struggle and survival.

I fight Live paycheck The weight Student
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I know what it’s like to be beaten to the ground for standing up.I know what it’s like to see your loved ones dragged away by police.I know what it’s like to fight with my whole heart.

Be beaten The ground Standing up Loved ones
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It's time for a change, for new leadership that works for YOU. It's our time to make history.

It's time A change New leadership That works
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I saw regular, everyday people brutalized on the streets of Ferguson.I saw people arrested for what felt like no reason at all.I saw people beaten unconscious for the mere act of raising their voices in the name of justice for Black folks.

People brutalized The streets Arrested No reason
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At this moment in our history, we need progressive leadership. that should be our priority.

This moment Our history Progressive leadership Our priority
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I stand tall to fight another day for a community that I love and for people who deserve to have their needs met right now today.

Stand tall To fight A community I love
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Being 100% grassroots means we're committed to a campaign that’s by the people, for the people.Help sustain the movement and contribute today!

Grassroots We're committed A campaign The people
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We're seeing COVID-19 cases decline across the nation. That doesn't mean the pandemic is over. We must remain diligent.

Cases decline The nation The pandemic Is over
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Can we take a moment to appreciate all of the teachers who are working harder than ever to teach our children through the pandemic?

To appreciate The teachers Working harder To teach
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Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood.

Act Violence Message Understood
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