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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Herbert Spencer

Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
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
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
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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
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
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
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
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 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
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
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Clear Freedom Oneself Tax
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
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
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
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
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe

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