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Herbert Spencer

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
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
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
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
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
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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Confusion Greatness Himself Knowledge Man Order
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
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
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe

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