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.John Stuart Mill
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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.
Sabrina Carpenter -
Ut quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum.
Lucretius -
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.
Bill Nighy -
I think it's great to grow up in a small town because you're just dying to break loose.
Jerry Hall -
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.
Lilly Singh -
I don't feel I could've played major league baseball.
Jim Brown
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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.
Aleksandar Hemon -
I'd be plenty happy if I could keep playing scientists and cops for the rest of my career.
Aisha Tyler -
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.
John L. Lewis -
I think it's really important that women are represented in the media, and diverse women as well.
Angourie Rice -
Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.
Elizabeth McCracken -
To robbe Peter and pay Poule.
John Heywood
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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.
John Muir -
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.
Jonathan Groff -
My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.
Odilon Redon -
Plummer is the Billy Graham of the NFL. He can make 70,000 people say 'Jesus' in unison.
Randy Cross -
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.
Lev Vygotsky -
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.
P. G. Wodehouse
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When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.
John Locke Nazareth -
If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the book banners want to control what every child reads.
Sherman Alexie -
The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.
John Stuart Mill