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Quote by Herbert Spencer
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet i

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one. – Herbert Spencer

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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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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. – Herbert Spencer

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Health
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. – Herbert Spencer

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Future
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When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state. – Vladimir Lenin

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I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace. – Natan Sharansky

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Freedom

Latinos have fought in all of Americas wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago. – Joe Baca

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. – Erich Fromm

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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope theyll do very well with it. – Larry Wall

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The power to define the situation is the ultimate power. – Jerry Rubin

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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves… have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. – Joseph Conrad

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There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history. – James Lovelock

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