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Ideas are the root of creation.
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Creation
Ideas
Roots
Root
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Ideas are the roots of creation.
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Creation
Ideas
Roots
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All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
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Serious
Conversations
Gravitate
Towards
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Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
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Education
Creation
Habit
Methodical
Thinking
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Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.
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Book
Life Is
Life Is Too Short
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A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
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Book
Consciousness
Landscape
Readers
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Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.
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Method
Scientific Method
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Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
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Education
Inspirational
Learning
Children
Educate
Left
Teaching
Also
Themselves
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Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.
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Curiosity
Giving
Intense
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Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
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Mean
Names
Reading
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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
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History
Historical
Past
Illuminates
Interests
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Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.
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Imagination
Long
People
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Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
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Judgment
People
Repeats
Expressed
Till
Repeat
Suspend
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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
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Life
Lessons
Rewards
Succession
Enforced
Immediate
Life Is A
Reward
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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Art
Architecture
Bad Ass
Badass
Soul
Acts
Arts
Slowly
Surely
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We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
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Conversation
Philosophy
Serious
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A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.
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Education
Inspirational
Teaching
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The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.
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Discovery
Mind
Reflection
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You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.
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God
Believe
Hard
Immortality
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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
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Happiness
Happy
Inspirational
Great
Destructive
Errors
Little Things
Repetition
Ruined
Little
Most
Things
Fatal
Slowly
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Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
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Data
Forget
Genius
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
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America
Habit
Improvement
Rooms
Twelve
Chances
Conversations
Inveterate
Mental
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Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.
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Doe
Humanity
Needs
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Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.
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Bored
Giving
Hate
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Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention to each word results in attention to mere words.
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Attention
Curiosity
Giving
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Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard work and even the weariness it leaves carry a nobility with them, but also because there is no room in such lives for inferior mental occupation.
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Life
Business
Hard Work
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