John Stuart Mill Quotes
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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To the new International that is now in the irreversible process of preparation we can contribute the ideas of worldwide organization and the world state; the English can suggest the idea of worldwide exploitation and trusts; the French can offer nothing. ...
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Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.
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Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow.
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I'm probably never going to be politically correct because I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician. Because politicians do what is politically expedient - I want to do what's right.
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The word is not the thing.
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I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - 'Pennies from Heaven' - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.
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On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.
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Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.
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In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.
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I never want to make a child worried or afraid, and I don't think I do. My pictures are born from the belief that children are far more capable and aware of social complexities than we give them credit for.
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A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
