In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
HERBERT SPENCERAn 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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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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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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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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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