Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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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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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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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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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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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