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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Amn Compare Love Old Our Superficial Wife Youth
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Activity Civilization Culture Freedom Oldest Promote
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Again Become Cecome Every Hatred Just Only Respectable Vice Virtue Wartime
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Adjust Code Condition Environment Moral Themselves
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Been Eight Free Hundred Only Past Sixty Two War Year
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Broadway Excess Forty Freedom Just Live Look Street Two
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Faster Him Learn Men Teach Woe
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Banker History Hoard Inflammatory Know Last Man Money Thing Wise
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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Always Clever Good History Lesson Nothing Often One Say Thing
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Ago Discovery Education Everything Ignorance Knew Know Now Own Progressive Sixty Yera
Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Always Clever Good Nothing Often Say Thing
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Act Against Country Divide Machine Majority Minority Person Political United
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Continue Declaration Independence Make Nature never Read Unequal
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Basis Even Excess Government Perish Principle Tend
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Become Desire Eye Knowledge Pilot Soul
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Admit Age Ages Go Last Machine Man Mcanniot Mind On Thing Will
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Always Begin Broke Custom Every Minority One Originate Precedent Truth
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Afford Cannot Moralist Stateman
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Another Answer Bother Human Being Interest Know Last Most never Question Raise Suffer Thing Wonder World
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Dishonest Ill Other Ourselves Praise Speak Way
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Four Hur Last Little Most Much Six Spend Thousand Time Too Twenty Year
Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Civilization Education Transmission
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Anarchist Ask Case For Law Man Many Need Neighbour Own Privately Superfluous Sure Think Unphilosphical
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Less Memory Mother Penetrate Reasoning Seat Sooner Spank Take Time Tired
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Art Begin End Every Science Philosophy
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Best Country Earth Event Four Hour Inform Last People Twenty We
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Certainty Fatal Inquiry

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