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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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 word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
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 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
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
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
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
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
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
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
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
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship

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