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Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.

Herbert Spencer

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
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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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The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
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Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.
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Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
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The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded to the state of feeling, would unconsciously use that variety in the mode of presenting his thoughts, which Art demands.
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Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.
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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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The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many in shallows and in miseries, are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.
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Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.
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Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies.
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The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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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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Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
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Policeman are soldiers who act alone soldiers are policeman who act in unison.
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Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.
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