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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.

Herbert Spencer

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
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
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Fingers Man Marriage Relationship Ring
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
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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Form Government Old Terror
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
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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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
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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average 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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Death Live Moments Place
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
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
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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