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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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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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When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.
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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.
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Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.
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There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.
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The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.
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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
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Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
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The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.
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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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