"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."
-Jeremy Bentham
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"The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.“
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"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
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"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
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"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."
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"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law."
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"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."
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"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
-H. L. Mencken
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"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
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"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity."
-Jose Marti
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