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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Changing Happier Hopelessly Interested
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Difficulty Education Experience Get
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Friends Human Human Race Part
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Controlled Dreadful Geography Me
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Any Chaos Confusion Minds
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Almost Balance Every Less
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Child Educated Only School
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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Conclusions Draw Experience Lead
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Almost Always Another Friends
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Courage Dignity Grace His
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Disillusionment Wisdom Comes By
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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Build Emotional Emotional Life Life
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My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
Definition Modernism Took While
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Been Education Forgotten Learned
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

Always Came Decisions Design
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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

Change Environment Old Try
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

Act Affect Again Consequences
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Always Best Circumstances Failure
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

Another Church Get Kind
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I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

Bothered College Faith Freshman
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

Basically Been Behave Believe
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

Agnostic Cannot Conditions Force
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

Culture Defined Doubts Ever
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

Improve Know Prefer Religion
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

Changed Culture Inherited Last
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

Along Coming Get Quantity
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

Apply Behavior Benefits Changing
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

Down Falls Individual Insist
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Avoid Been Behave Best
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The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

Abandoned Continue Deteriorate Environment
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

Behavior Committed Culture Deprivation
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

Bar Chief Complacent Knowledge
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Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

Action Categories Combat Elements
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In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

Counting Dead Drain Fruitful
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In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

Action Discover Duty Endeavor
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Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
Dependent Few Guerrilla Kind
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Life should be great rather than long.
Great Life Long Rather
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Different Eminent Great Man
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Achieve Avail Freedom Law
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Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Both Die Idea Men
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

Come End India Integrated
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Between Closest Friends Husband
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Equality Fraternity Liberty Like
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
Aim Cultivation Existence Human
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Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Admit Another Class Country
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Alone Being Born Development
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Conflict Discrimination Full Fundamental
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Conviction Discontent Enough Importance
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

Act Cannot Ceases Essence
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

Constitution Denies Different Embodied
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