Without civic morality communities perish without personal morality their survival has no value.
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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness.
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