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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Herbert Spencer

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
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
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
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
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
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
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
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
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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Form Government Old Terror
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice

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