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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

John Stuart Mill

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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Adoption Experience Greatness Movement
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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Force Improvement Liberty People Spirit Willing
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
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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Himself Liberty Limitation Nuisance People
When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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Ability Challenge Defend Ideas Weakness
To bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.
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Children Crime Existence Instruction Mindset Prospect Society Training
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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Greatness Known Tradition
Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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Brief Complex Luck Photography
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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Desire End Freedom Pain Pleasure
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Certain Discussion Fake Opinion Refuse Silence
One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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Belief Equality Interest Person
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
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Kind Man Oneself Opinion Power Silence
Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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Stupidity World
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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Desire Learning Satisfaction Seek
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
All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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Conclusion Evil State Subject

Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

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