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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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
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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.
Jonathan Groff
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My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.
Odilon Redon
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Plummer is the Billy Graham of the NFL. He can make 70,000 people say 'Jesus' in unison.
Randy Cross
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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.
Lev Vygotsky
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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.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
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I would rather work less and do the things that I really want to do.
Sandy Duncan
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What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.
John Ruskin
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The imposition of P.C. has no logical end because feeling better about one’s self by confessing other people’s sins, humiliating and hurting them, is an addictive pleasure the appetite for which grows with each satisfaction. The more fault I find in thee, the holier (or, at least, the trendier) I am than thou. The worse you are, the better I am and the more power I should have over you.
Angelo Codevilla
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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.
John Stuart Mill
