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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.

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
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
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 preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Health Moral Preservation Responsibility
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
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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
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
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
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
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
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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
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

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