A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
HERBERT SPENCERThe behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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