"We must infer that a plant or animal……" — Herbert Spencer
"We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way."
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Herbert Spencer
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113 Quotes by Herbert Spencer
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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred…
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When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on,…
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the…
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Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
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A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the…
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The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become…
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less…
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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that…
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.
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More Aggregate Quotes
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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
— Emile M. Cioran
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He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of…
— Henry George
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The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought…
— George Washington
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When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent,…
— Charles Lyell
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I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled…
— Amartya Sen
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My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it…
— John Harvey Kellogg
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One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth…
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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Now Manchester United are 2-1 down on aggregate, they are in a better position than when they started the game…
— Ron Atkinson
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Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in…
— Brian Barry
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It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the…
— Paul Krugman
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The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse…
— Ben Bernanke
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History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life…
— Leo Tolstoy
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