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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

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
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
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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
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
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
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
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
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
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
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
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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Existence Form Government Human Nature Present Requirement

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