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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Herbert Spencer

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
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
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
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
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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
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
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
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge

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