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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

John Stuart Mill

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
JOHN STUART MILL

Experience Flavor Life Risk Shelter
Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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Atmosphere Breathe Freedom Genius
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
JOHN STUART MILL

Happiness Philosophy Question
Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
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Aspiration Beautiful Natural Presence Sick Society Solitude
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Existence Goodness Object Original Result
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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Home Meaning Personal Realize Truth
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
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
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Himself Moral Prevent Purpose Right Willing
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
JOHN STUART MILL

Assumption Discussion Fall Silence
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
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Errors Fatal Mistake Reason Tendency Thinking
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
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Development Force Human Live Machine Nature Requirement Tree
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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Courage Human Intellectual Mindset Pay Price
A man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing “what nobody does,” or of not doing “what everybody does,” is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.
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Grave Man Moral Remark Woman
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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Fundamental Greatness Improvement Thinking
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 attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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Conclusion Evil State Subject

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