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Jean Piaget Knowledge

In other words knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

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    Henry Adams about Society

    American society is a sort of flat fresh-water pond which absorbs silently without reaction anything which is thrown into it.

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