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

Herbert Spencer

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
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Expectation Happiness Object Pursue Source
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
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
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 fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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Fact Majority Past Survey Wrong
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
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
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
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
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
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word

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