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Science is organized knowledge.

Herbert Spencer

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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
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 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
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 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
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
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
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
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
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
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
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Form Government Old Terror

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