"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 wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.“
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"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society."
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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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"There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice."
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"If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive."
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"And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe."
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"The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation."
-Lee Myung-bak
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