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John Stuart Mill

A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes–will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
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Accomplishment Finding Hands Instrument Man Order Purpose State
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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Adoption Experience Greatness Movement
Language is the light of the mind.
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Language Light Mindset
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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Finding Freedom Liberty Lying Right
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.
JOHN STUART MILL

Certain Discussion Fake Opinion Refuse Silence
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
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Human Lawyer Object University
Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
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Adverse Chance Opinion Subject Supply Truth
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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Marriage Perspective Slave Wife Word
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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Growth Money Rich Risk Sleep
There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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Art Capability Circumstance Life Rule
Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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Stupidity World
Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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Atmosphere Breathe Freedom Genius
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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Errors Opinion Preparation Suffering Thinking Truth
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Existence Goodness Object Original Result
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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Action Himself Individual Person
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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Different Understand Unique Woman

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