In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
HERBERT SPENCEROld 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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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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