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" Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. "
Herbert Spencer
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Unexpected
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" Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold. "
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" What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. "
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" The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. "
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" Science is organized knowledge. "
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" Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. "
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" Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. "
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" Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. "
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" A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. "
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" We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one. "
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" 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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" All socialism involves slavery. "
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" The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. "
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" 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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" 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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" People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. "
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" The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship. "
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" Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. "
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" 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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" 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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" We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced. "
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" Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. "
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" 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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" In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances. "
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" Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. "
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Know
Poetry
" Every cause produces more than one effect. "
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Than
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" 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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" Government is essentially immoral. "
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" The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. "
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