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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Government
Excess
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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Time
Years
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Environmental
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Law
Man
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Soul
Knowledge
Desire
Eye
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Time
People
Country
Fool
May
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Certainty
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Age
Discovery
Freedom
Liberty
Old
Order
Stress
Youth
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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Laws
Man
Needs
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Income
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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History
Prejudice
Rest
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Art
Science
Philosophy
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Education
Discovery
Ignorance
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Civilization
Freedom
Order
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Change
Civilization