John Stuart Mill Quotes
The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.
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Every free day, every weekend, I am in a recording session. I'm very lucky to have such supportive people around me.
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Ut quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum.
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I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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I think it's great to grow up in a small town because you're just dying to break loose.
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Every day, something new gets thrown at me, and I'm like, 'How did this happen?' I've gone through some of the craziest life experiences because of YouTube.
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I don't feel I could've played major league baseball.
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I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.
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I'd be plenty happy if I could keep playing scientists and cops for the rest of my career.
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Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.
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I think it's really important that women are represented in the media, and diverse women as well.
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Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.
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To robbe Peter and pay Poule.
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Surely all God's people, however serious and savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes, - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them.
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It's one thing to experience your Broadway debut alone, but to share it with an entire company was like summer camp or a college experience, where you were really growing up together.
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My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.
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Plummer is the Billy Graham of the NFL. He can make 70,000 people say 'Jesus' in unison.
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Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday, but to the tomorrow of the child's development. Only then can it call to life in the process of education those processes of development which now lie in the zone of proximal development.
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Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.
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When you have breakfasted well and fully, if you will drink a big cup of chocolate at the end you will have digested the whole perfectly three hours later, and you will still be able to dine. Because of my scientific enthusiasm and the sheer force of my eloquence I have persuaded a number of ladies to try this, although they were convinced it would kill them; they have always found themselves in fine shape indeed, and have not forgotten to give the Professor his rightful due.
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My father's from Pakistan and he has been a secularist all his life. In the Pakistani context, there's no messing with religion. There's been a battle for the soul of Pakistan since 1947 and I have grown up without any illusions about the dangers of religious power in the context of a country like Pakistan.
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I would rather work less and do the things that I really want to do.
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The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.
