John Stuart Mill Quotes
The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.
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I'll tell you something, and this is true: I've never been able to write a film which I didn't respect. I just can't do it. I'm very happy about all the films I haven't done.
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Man's life? A candle in the wind, hoar-frost on stone.
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So I’ll walk the plank and I’ll jump with a smile.If I’m gonna go down, I’m gonna do it with style,and you won't see me surrender, you won't hear me confess,'Cuz you've left me with nothing, but i've worked with less.
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I don't shave when I'm not working.
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Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception.
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'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and I like to kind of pursue my own ideas. And I think the more personal the better.
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But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing.
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My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.
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People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.
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She was someone who was full of life ... She represented everything that was wonderful about Sweden and about Europe.
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Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
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There is a very serious energy agenda that we can work on together.
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Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.
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I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.
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The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
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The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of the country would be thrown out of gear. Before the era of steam-engines, windmills were tried for draining mines; but though they were powerful machines, they were very irregular, so that in a long tract of calm weather the mines were drowned, and all the workmen thrown idle.
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Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
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Hubble made my career.
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In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
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The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.
