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Science is organized knowledge.

Herbert Spencer

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.
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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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Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
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Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.
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The society exists for the benefit of its members not its members for the benefit of the society.
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