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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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
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
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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
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 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
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion

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