It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
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If there is no struggle there is no progress.
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Specialization is for insects.
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Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.
Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.
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Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.
