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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

John Stuart Mill

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The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.

JOHN STUART MILL

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
JOHN STUART MILL

Object University
Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

JOHN STUART MILL

Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
JOHN STUART MILL

Form Oneself
Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.

JOHN STUART MILL

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
JOHN STUART MILL

Minority Preserve Small
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Mindset Oneself Original
As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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Conclusion Cultivation Draw Narrow
To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

JOHN STUART MILL

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.
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Economy Industry Tax
The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England

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The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
JOHN STUART MILL

Portion
All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.

JOHN STUART MILL

All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.
JOHN STUART MILL

Aspect Examination
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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Flavor Shelter
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
JOHN STUART MILL
All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.

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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
JOHN STUART MILL

Conclusion Subject
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
JOHN STUART MILL
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
JOHN STUART MILL

Majority
The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

JOHN STUART MILL

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
JOHN STUART MILL

Persecution
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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