Science is organized knowledge.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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