"The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient."

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The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed. Nature is all that a man brings with himself into the world; nurture is every influence without that affects him after his birth.

— Francis Galton