"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
-Herbert Spencer
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"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.“
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"Science is organized knowledge."
-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 Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing."
-Herbert Spencer
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"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."
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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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-Vladimir Lenin
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"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-John Lennon
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
-Edmund Burke
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
-Sigmund Freud
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