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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
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In progressive societies the concentration of wealth may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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