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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced mirage.

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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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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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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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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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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We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.
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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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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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A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.
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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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The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
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