A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage";
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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