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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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Argument Communism Fatal Nature Ourselves Theory
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Expectation Happiness Object Pursue Source
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Animal Lower Man Relationship
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Fingers Man Marriage Relationship Ring
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Advance Change Ideas Important Science
When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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Confusion Greatness Himself Knowledge Man Order
Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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Color Glass Project Pull See
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science

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