Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature, helpless, without language, beliefs, ideas, or social standards. Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experience of his group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on.
Every one of the constituent ...
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Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.