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  8. The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

  9. Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

  10. If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

  11. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

  12. It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.

  13. Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

  14. As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

  15. On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.

  16. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

  17. A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

  18. Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

  19. Systems die; instincts remain.

  20. In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.

  21. The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.