Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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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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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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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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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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