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

Herbert Spencer

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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
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
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
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
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
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Animal Beginning Goodness People See Success
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
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
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
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Death Live Moments Place

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