People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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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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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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