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Education is the transmission of civilization.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe ...

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.