Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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 great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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