"When I had asked why they were taking English, a boy said: "To help us in real life."

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“With me they get a solid foundation, the disciplines of learning. In my class they don't get away with hot air discussions and exchanging their opinions and describing their experiences. What opinions can they have? What have they experienced? What do they know? That's an affront! They learn what I know.”

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"For a wholesome collaboration of the sexes in professional life will be possible only if both achieve a calm and objective awareness of their nature and draw practical conclusions from it."

— Edith Stein

Philosophy1891–1942

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"Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another."

— Richard Owen

Science1804–1892

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— Jennifer Aniston

Entertainment1969

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"It seems obvious that a true realization of the implications of reincarnation will transform the whole Western approach to reality. The idea that life is not short, brutish and arbitrary; that there i…"

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Art1922–2016

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