The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials.
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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
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The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.
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Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas.
The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.
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Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.
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The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow--by the tilt of the social landscape.
