"I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth."

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I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a direct intervention on our part that we may remedy the difficulties, but rather by a precise knowledge of their causes, which may enable us, if not to check, at least to avoid the evil consequences.

— Louis Agassiz