The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

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"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."

- George Santayana

Awareness

"To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well."

- George Santayana

Balance

"One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."

- George Santayana

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"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

- George Santayana

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""The earth has music for those who listen.""

- George Santayana

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

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"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

Education

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

Education

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

Education

"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."

- Kotomi Ichinose

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