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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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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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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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