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«Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance»
«We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.»
«Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
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forms of government, oppressive, reigns, Reign of Terror, terror, thrown, throw off
«The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
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complementary, disclosed, discloses, majorities, survey
«Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
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Civilization
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coherent, definite, heterogeneity, homogeneity, incoherent, indefinite
«Or it needs only to look back over past centuries and the iniquities alike of populace, nobles, kings, and popes to perceive an almost incomprehensible futility of the beliefs everywhere held and perpetually insisted upon»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
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incomprehensible, iniquities, insisted, nobles, perpetually, popes, populace
«Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded»
«In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
«A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.»
«Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him»
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