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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Animal Beginning Goodness People See Success
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
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
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
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
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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

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