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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Herbert Spencer

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
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
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
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
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Animal Beginning Goodness People See Success
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
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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
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
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
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish

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