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Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

Herbert Spencer

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
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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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A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
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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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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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The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.
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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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Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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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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The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
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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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