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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Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.
Immanuel Kant
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
Moliere
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I assume that in great men whose names I dare not mention, the anarchic element was very powerful. You see, when fundamental changes are to occur in law, custom, and society, they presuppose a great distancing from established principles. And the anarch, should he take any action, is capable of working this lever.
Ernst Junger
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
Rafael Vinoly
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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
