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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Herbert Spencer

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
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
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
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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Confusion Greatness Himself Knowledge Man Order
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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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
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
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
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
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
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social

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