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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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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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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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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
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Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear so surely must man become perfect.
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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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