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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

Herbert Spencer

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
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
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
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
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
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
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
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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Death Live Moments Place
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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Arts Human Minister Music Oneself Position Rank Spirit
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
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
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Animal Lower Man Relationship
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
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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End Life Love Wealth

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