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“Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“It would be impossible to find a deeper sense of the function of education in discovering and developing personal capacities, and training them so that they would connect with the activities of others.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“But the school in which good training is most practised will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“Now in many cases—too many cases—the activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“I didn’t mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
“No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.” Veronica Roth, Insurgent
“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.” Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
“He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang of it.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“The clay of White Fang had been moulded until he became what he was, morose and lonely, unloving and ferocious, the enemy of all his kind.” Jack London, White Fang
“What we have found in Afghanistan confirms that, far from ending there, our war against terror is only beginning. Most of the 19 men who hijacked planes on September the 11th were trained in Afghanistan's camps, and so were tens of thousands of...” George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

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