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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies.
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It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.
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Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.
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We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.
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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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Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
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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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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?
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The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
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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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