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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
Anthropologist
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
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Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.
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However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
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A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.
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All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.
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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
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It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
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It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.
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We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
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No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.
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When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agree on that that's a more toxic and contentious issue, granting full amnesty.
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Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
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Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
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Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
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