John Stuart Mill Quotes
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
Quotes to Explore
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Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.
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I love to perform live.
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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
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The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
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Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.
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Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country.
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Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
