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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
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
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
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
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
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
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
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
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
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
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right

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