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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

John Stuart Mill

However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
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Discussion Himself Live Opinion Person Possible Strong Truth
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
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
A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.
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Affair Concern Freedom Himself Person
Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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Body Mindset Oneself Sovereign
Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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Atmosphere Breathe Freedom Genius
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Feeling Mindset Oneself Original
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Existence Goodness Object Original Result
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
Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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Brief Complex Luck Photography
He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Choice Custom Himself
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
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Activity Choice Discrimination Faculty Human Mental
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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Conservative People Stupidity True
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
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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Advancement Custom Human Obstacle

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