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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.

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
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
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
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
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
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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
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
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing

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