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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

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
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
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
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
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
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
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

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