John Stuart Mill Quotes
Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
Edmund White
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
Ralph G. Neas
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
Dan Maffei
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
E. L. Doctorow
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I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'
Laura Mvula
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
Sam Brownback
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
Oleg Deripaska
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
A. S. Byatt
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
Mads Mikkelsen
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
Candy Crowley
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
Irving Kirsch
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
Gary Larson
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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.
LeBron James
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The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or ever touched, they must be felt with the heart. We should do everything within reason to save a good relationship. But if we are constantly trying to save it, it's probably not a good relationship.
Javan
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If a movie goes south, it might not capsize me the way it used to. But I still have a terrible fear of failure. I'm a huge worrier.
Owen Wilson
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He made a little adjustment. No one in here is worried about that guy. All you have to do is look on the back of his baseball card and know that everything is going to be all right.
Nick Swisher
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Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.
John Stuart Mill