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The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority. George Bancroft
Government Best Property People Free Few Rests Development Opinion Authority Public Persons Public Opinion
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. George Bancroft
Ignorance First Blindly Easily Adopted More Than Interest Preferred Prejudices Second
The public is wiser than the wisest critic. George Bancroft
Critic Wiser Wisest Than Public
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. George Bancroft
Truth Decision Mind Criterion Faculty Common Reason Nearest Universal
The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good. George Dyson
Good Unlimited Generally Information Public Public Good
Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time. Digital codes are strings of binary digits - bits. George Dyson
Time Book Phone Binary Digital Strings Alive Bits Evolve More Over Than Replicate Any While Organisms Code Codes Necessarily
Last time I checked, the digital universe was expanding at the rate of five trillion bits per second in storage and two trillion transistors per second on the processing side. George Dyson
Time Digital Universe Side Bits Trillion Per Rate Checked Expanding Five Storage Processing Second Last Two Last Time
We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It's possible Google is that kind of thing already. It scales so fast. George Dyson
Google Machine Scales Possible Kind More Construct Could Understand Intelligent Than Fast Thing
I have had a Twitter account since the very beginning but have never used it: I haven't tweeted anything, and I haven't followed anyone. George Dyson
Beginning Twitter Followed Never Had Since Very Account Anyone Anything Used
I read the Drudge Report! And wander around Facebook sometimes! George Dyson
Facebook Sometimes Read Around Report Wander
I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are strongly anti-technology are probably voicing that view on a Web site somewhere. Third-world villagers without electricity have cellphones. George Dyson
People Digital Somewhere Single Universe Immersed Web Web Site Strongly Know Without Single Person Person Site View Electricity Who Even
I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school. George Dyson
School Everyone High Hated High School Adolescent Rebellious
It doesn't cost anything to replicate code. So the companies that make code, that's why they've done so well. We take it for granted now, but why is it that code is free? It's because somebody built this self-replicating process. George Dyson
Free Somebody Cost Take Well Make Because Built Replicate Done Anything Process Granted Companies Code Now Why
Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a very, very clear description that was truly prophetic. George Dyson
Time Digital Gave Prophetic Computing He Clear Test Mathematical Truly Very Model Us Description Alan
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. George F. Kennan
History Generation People Problems Lose Own Too Relate Would Records Civilized Scholar Absorb Study Study History Implies Concept Reader Without Very Them Meaning Lessons Preserve
Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success. Gertrude Himmelfarb
Success Nothing Assurance Seductive
The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom. Gertrude Himmelfarb
Freedom History Matter Will Out Spirit Real Movement Fueled Turns
Personality is lower than partiality. Goldwin Smith
Personality Partiality Than Lower
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party. Goldwin Smith
Humanity Party Sympathy Must Unbounded Partiality Like Look Without His Historian Prejudice Novelist
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication. Goldwin Smith
Life Live Would Would-Be Real Were Perpetual Effort Middle Middle Ages Ages Your
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law. Goldwin Smith
Government Great Law Arms Rome
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history? Goldwin Smith
Character History Differences Doubt Between French Course Still Affect Affected Irish Scotch Which English Who Profoundly
That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain. Goldwin Smith
Great Wealthy Rome Certain Comparatively
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength. Goldwin Smith
Strength Discipline Citizen Made First Submission Submit Soldiers Rigid Lay Had Instance Feel Were Been Roman Formed Who
The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature. Goldwin Smith
Work Nature Faithful Human Nature Must Study His Human Ground Novelist
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation. Goldwin Smith
Humanity Field Must Be Real Observation Real Materials His Novelist Actual Gathered
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