Science is organized knowledge.
HERBERT SPENCERWe do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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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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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 behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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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.
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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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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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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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