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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Herbert Spencer

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Fingers Man Marriage Relationship Ring
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
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
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
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
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
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
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
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

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