Every cause produces more than one effect.
HERBERT SPENCERPeople are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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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.
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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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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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