Herbert Spencer Quotes

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

Herbert Spencer

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• You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

  

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• The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.

  

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• I can do a gig without an instrument.

  

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• In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

  

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• My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

  

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• I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel.

  

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• Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

  

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• I'm like really famous. I got a famous anus.

  

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• Gotta go let me get the car key You don't want it wit the Harajuku Barbie

  

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• Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

  

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• I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.

  

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• Enjoy life and change things. And maybe by giving examples of people who achieve things, who succeed, who are proactive and being happy and facing their own destinies, rather than accepting what the world throws at at them - we should fight! Not like street fighting, but the little act of defiance every day.

  

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• Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!

  

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• In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a deluge, not of water but of sins, continually inundates the earth, and out of this deluge very few escape. Scarcely anyone is saved.

  

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• And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you. I have learned from you. And you’ve made me a better president. And with your stories and your struggles, I return to the White House more determined and more inspired than ever about the work there is to do and the future that lies ahead.

  

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• Chicks cannot hold their smoke, dat's what it is.

  

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• The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.

  

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• I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing twice the same way.

  

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• What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

  

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• Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

  

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• The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.

  

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• In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Office
  • States
  • Loses