John Stuart Mill Quotes
So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.
Quotes to Explore
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When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.
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I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.
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We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.
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So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.
