The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
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It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.Havelock Ellis
We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
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Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
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It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
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There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.
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In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way.
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