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Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

Herbert Spencer

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.
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Policeman are soldiers who act alone soldiers are policeman who act in unison.
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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.
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The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
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