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Magic begins in superstition and ends in science.

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The discipline of desire is the backbone of character.

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Science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life.

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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

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Never put a man in the wrong; he will hold it against you forever.

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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

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There is nothing in Socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

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Philosophy... is the front trench in the siege of truth. Science is the captured territory.

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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

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Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.

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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.

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From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.

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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

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The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

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