We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
HERBERT SPENCERThe 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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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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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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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