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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

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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End Life Love Wealth
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
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
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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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Arts Human Minister Music Oneself Position Rank Spirit
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
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
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
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
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
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word

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