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• Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal…
• They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
• Ideas control the world.
• Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
• For the love of country they accepted death.
• Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
• [Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
• I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects.…
• If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -…
• Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence,…
• For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the…
• Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can…

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