Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Herbert Spencer
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  2. Your life should be of benefit to others and you should always inspire them - Sunday Adelaja

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  1. We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil, ' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

  2. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

  3. If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human...

  4. They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

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