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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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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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 don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I remembered being young in the late '70s and early '80s and growing up at the height of the Cold War. I remembered how scared I was of nuclear weapons, how often I though about them and about the possibility of everything and everyone I knew vanishing in a second in temperatures hotter than the centre of the sun.
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Of course one can jump up and down yelling Europe ! Europe ! Europe ! But it amounts to nothing and it means nothing.
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First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.
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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.
