"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal."
-Herbert Spencer
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"We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.“
-Herbert Spencer
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"In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances."
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"The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship."
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