John Stuart Mill Quotes
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
Quotes to Explore
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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I enjoy my life.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.
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I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.
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The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.
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When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.
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The British army fought against other infantry arrayed in two ranks and every man could use his musket, and if cavalry threatened they marched and wheeled into a square of four ranks, and still every man could use his musket, but the soldiers at the heart of the two French columns could never fire without hitting the men in front.
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I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.
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A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.
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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
