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" A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. "

" A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it. "

" All socialism involves slavery. "

" 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. "

" Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold. "

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

" Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. "

" Education has for its object the formation of character. "

" Every cause produces more than one effect. "

" Government is essentially immoral. "

" Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. "

" How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. "

" In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances. "

" Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. "

" 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. "

" Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. "

" Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'. "

" Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. "

" No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. "

" Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. "

" Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. "

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

" Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. "

" People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. "

" Science is organized knowledge. "

" Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society. "

" The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship. "

" 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. "

" The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. "

" The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. "

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