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Every cause produces more than one effect.

Herbert Spencer

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Animal Lower Man Relationship
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
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
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
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
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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Argument Communism Fatal Nature Ourselves Theory
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
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Advance Change Ideas Important Science
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
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
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

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