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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

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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
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
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
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
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
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
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
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
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
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
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
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
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
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
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
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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