Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.Herbert Spencer
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.'
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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