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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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