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  • The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.

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    "Generation of Greatness: The Idea of a University in an Age of Science". Edwin Land's address at the ninth annual Arthur Dehon Little Memorial Lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, groups.csail.mit.edu. May 22, 1957.
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The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be. - Edwin Land
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