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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.

Herbert Spencer

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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Confusion Greatness Himself Knowledge Man Order
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
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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End Life Love Wealth
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Advance Change Ideas Important Science
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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Fact Majority Past Survey Wrong
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
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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Existence Form Government Human Nature Present Requirement
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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Color Glass Project Pull See
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man

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