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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Herbert Spencer

Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
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
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Animal Beginning Goodness People See Success
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
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Expectation Happiness Object Pursue Source
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Effect Fools Man Result World
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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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Fingers Man Marriage Relationship Ring
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
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
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
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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