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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.

Herbert Spencer

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
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
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
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
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
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
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 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
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
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 wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Future Man Parents Past Remember Wisdom
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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

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