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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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Always Clever Good History Lesson Nothing Often One Say Thing
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Art Diplomacy Especially Half Nothing Say Speak When
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Admit Age Ages Go Last Machine Man Mcanniot Mind On Thing Will
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Best Country Earth Event Four Hour Inform Last People Twenty We
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Give Knowledge Only Philosophy Science Us Wisdom
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Age Cure Little Money Not Nothing Socialism Will
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Ago Discovery Education Everything Ignorance Knew Know Now Own Progressive Sixty Yera
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Anarchist Ask Case For Law Man Many Need Neighbour Own Privately Superfluous Sure Think Unphilosphical
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Continue Declaration Independence Make Nature never Read Unequal
As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Anarchy As Complete Die Liberty Soon
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Fera Hope Mind Most People Rather Think Trouble
Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Always Clever Good Nothing Often Say Thing
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Afford Cannot Moralist Stateman
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Act Against Country Divide Machine Majority Minority Person Political United
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Four Hur Last Little Most Much Six Spend Thousand Time Too Twenty Year
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Civilization Family Nucleus One Liner
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Certainty Fatal Inquiry
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Guess History Most Prejudice Rest
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Faster Him Learn Men Teach Woe
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Become Free Law Man Recognize Subject
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Age Discovery Freedom Great Liberty Made Old Product Stress Youth
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Amn Compare Love Old Our Superficial Wife Youth
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Art Begin End Every Science Philosophy
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Another Answer Bother Human Being Interest Know Last Most never Question Raise Suffer Thing Wonder World
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Basis Even Excess Government Perish Principle Tend
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Banker History Hoard Inflammatory Know Last Man Money Thing Wise

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