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"In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach."
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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge."

"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."

"The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell."
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"Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them."

"Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction."

"Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves."

"Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love."

"A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it."

"Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true."

"It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion."

"Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not."
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