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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Herbert Spencer

Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
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
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
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
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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
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 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

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