John Stuart Mill Quotes
Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
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The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.
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I had a happy childhood: extremely outdoorsy and independent.
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The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys.
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Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.
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I see no light behind that terrible curtain. I do not think one religion better than another and I think the Christian religion has brought far more misery crime and suffering far more tyranny and evil than any other.
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Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?
