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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education--that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.
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Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.
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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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So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.
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The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced mirage.
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A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
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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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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.
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It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.
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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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Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
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Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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