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Submitted by russ on September 4, 2021 - 4:57am

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Government is us organizing to help ourselves.

“that these dead shall not have died in vain– that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth” (U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863)

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"It is not enough to teach people a specialty. Through it they may become a kind of useful machine but not a harmoniously developed personality. It is essential that the student acquire an understanding of and a lively feeling for values. They must acquire a vivid sense of the beautiful and of the morally good. Otherwise they – with their specialized knowledge – more closely resembles a well trained dog than a harmoniously developed person. People must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings in order to acquire a proper relationship to people around them and to the community…

"Overemphasis on the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included. It is also vital to a valuable education that independent critical thinking be developed in the young human being, a development that is greatly jeopardized by overburdening with too much and with too varied subjects. Overburdening necessarily leads to superficiality." -- Albert Einstein

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