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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
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
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
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
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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
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
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
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

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