John Stuart Mill Quotes
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds?
Quotes to Explore
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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I always knew where I was going eventually, so it helped me to stay at home for three years. It helped me to develop my game. But it also helped me off the ice. Life here is way different, and I was able to get older.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.
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Human nature must be changed if we are ever to have an end to war or to correct the wrong situations that make our lives uneasy and our hearts sore. Now Christianity, the power of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, is the only force that can change people for good.
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Only the poor can create art.
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I don't think that any physicist would have been clever enough to have invented string theory on purpose... Luckily, it was invented by accident.
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Football can generate excitement and bring people together.
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds?
