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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Herbert Spencer

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
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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Arts Human Minister Music Oneself Position Rank Spirit
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
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
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
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
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
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
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice

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