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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

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
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Effect Fools Man Result World
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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
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
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Health Moral Preservation Responsibility
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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Fact Majority Past Survey Wrong
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right

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