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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Herbert Spencer

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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End Life Love Wealth
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
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
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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Death Live Moments Place
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
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
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
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
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
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Form Government Old Terror
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
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship

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