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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

John Stuart Mill

The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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Influence Moral Salutation Woman
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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Crush Despotism Individual
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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Action Existence People Value
The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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Eternal Liberty Love Power
There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.
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Assumption Difference Greatness Opinion Purpose
With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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Equality Experience Herself Man Woman
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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Compose Individual State Worth
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Feeling Mindset Oneself Original
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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Advancement Custom Despotism Human
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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Affirmation Correct Debate Intellectual Wrong
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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Average General Kind Man World
In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.
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Development Himself Person Value
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.
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Better Different Fools Human Opinion Question Satisfaction
When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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Ability Challenge Defend Ideas Weakness
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 Study
Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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Happiness Myself Object Thinking

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