"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
-Herbert Spencer
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"The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.“
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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."
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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."
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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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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
-Leo Tolstoy
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
-Margaret Mead
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"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."
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"I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me."
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"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
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"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."
-Lord Acton
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