John Stuart Mill Quotes
The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Should some senator or congressman have a sudden attack of conscience and blurt something out, 'dark money' brings them to their senses and reminds them that their job is to facilitate the transfer of public funds into the pockets of the few and to not ask too many questions.
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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
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With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.
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The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
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We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. … All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.
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The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.
