John Stuart Mill Quotes
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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My father is an amazing person.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.
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I have had more honors than I've deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, 'Well, I'm going to retire.' But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don't let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.
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There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long, serious and profound study and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural Book, that it has come from God, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings.
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Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.
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That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
