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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

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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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