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

Herbert Spencer

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
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
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
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
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
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
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
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
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
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
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

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