Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

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  Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

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  Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being

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  The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the

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  Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

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