"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
-Herbert Spencer
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"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.“
-Herbert Spencer
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"Science is organized knowledge."
-Herbert Spencer
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"In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances."
-Herbert Spencer
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"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing."
-Herbert Spencer
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"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."
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"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"The starting point of all achievement is desire."
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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-Thomas A. Edison
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