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A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
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Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.
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Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas' - that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
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I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
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Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the self has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.
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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
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