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What is a scientist?… We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

— Maria Montessori

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The children are now working as if I did not exist.

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He is a serene and pleasant man where he is powerful through being efficient, but is domineering where he is served.

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