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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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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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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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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