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21."Success in any realm of life comes more often from taking chances or risks than from careful and cautious planning."

22."It is not the headline-making political events but the seldom-reported social tranformations that have the most lasting significance."

23."The best preparation for life or a career is not learning to be competitive, but learning to be cooperative."

24."The goal of politics should not be the pursuit of an ideal, but rather the search for common ground and reasonable consensus."

25."Technology creates more problems than it solves, and may threaten or damage the quality of life."

26."The material progress and well-being of one country are necessarily connected to the material progress and well-being of all other countries."

27."Instead of encouraging conformity, society should show greater appreciation of individual differences."

28."Truly innovative ideas do not arise from groups of people, but from individuals. When groups try to be creative, the members force each other to compromise and, as a result, creative ideas tend to be weakened and made more conventional. Most original ideas arise from individuals working alone."

29."The most elusive knowledge is self-knowledge, and it is usually acquired through solitude, rather than through interaction with others."

30."The purpose of education should be to provide students with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas—not to prepare them for a specific job."

31."Unlike great thinkers and great artists, the most effective political leaders must often yield to public opinion and abandon principle for the sake of compromise."

32."The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its heroines."

33."We learn through direct experience; to accept a theory without experiencing it is to learn nothing at all."

34."As societies all over the world have more and more access to new information, the effects on life-long learning can only be positive."

35."People are too quick to take action; instead they should stop to think of the possible consequences of what they might do."

36."Rituals and ceremonies help define a culture. Without them, societies or groups of people have a diminished sense of who they are."

37."The way people look, dress, and act reveals their attitudes and interests. You can tell much about a society's ideas and values by observing the appearance and behavior of its people."

38."Progress is best made through discussion among people who have contrasting points of view."

39."Most people choose a career on the basis of such pragmatic considerations as the needs of the economy, the relative ease of finding a job, and the salary they can expect to make. Hardly anyone is free to choose a career based on his or her natural talents or interest in a particular kind of work."

40."Any decision-whether made by government, by a corporation, or by an individual person-must take into account future conditions more than present conditions."

41."If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain it is justifiable."

42."Too much emphasis has been placed on the need for students to challenge the assertions of others. In fact, the ability to compromise and work with others—that is, the ability to achieve social harmony—should be a major goal in every school."

43."Society should identify those children who have special talents and abilities and begin training them at an early age so that they can eventually excel in their areas of ability. Otherwise, these talents are likely to remain undeveloped."

44."The bombardment of visual images in contemporary society has the effect of making people less able to focus clearly and extensively on a single issue over a long period of time."

45."Most important discoveries or creations are accidental: it is usually while seeking the answer to one question that we come across the answer to another."

46."In order to produce successful original work, scholars and scientists must first study the successful work of others to learn what contributions remain to be made."

47."In order for any work of art—whether film, literature, sculpture, or a song—to have merit, it must be understandable to most people."

48."Now that computer technology has made possible the rapid accessing of large amounts of factual information, people are less likely than ever to think deeply or originally. They feel unable to compete with—much less contribute to—the quantity of information that is now available electronically."

49."The increase in knowledge is forcing people to specialize. As a result, the distance between fields of specialization has become so vast that specialists in different areas are rarely able to influence each other."

50."The chief benefit of the study of history is to break down the illusion that people in one period of time are significantly different from people who lived at any other time in history."

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