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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.

Herbert Spencer

Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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
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
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
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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
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
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
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 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
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
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

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