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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Herbert Spencer

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Advance Change Ideas Important Science
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
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
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
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Expectation Happiness Object Pursue Source
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
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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
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
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Clear Freedom Oneself Tax
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right

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