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Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

— Johan Huizinga

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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

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The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

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These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

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