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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Herbert Spencer

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 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
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
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
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
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man

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