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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.

John Stuart Mill

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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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Force Hope Listening Side
Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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Desire Man Rich
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
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Human Invention Light Question
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Bad End Goodness Man
Language is the light of the mind.
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Language Light Mindset
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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Cultivation Life Mental Reason Satisfaction
When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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Ability Challenge Defend Ideas Weakness
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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Advancement Custom Despotism Human
One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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Belief Equality Interest Person
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
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 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
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
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Happiness Philosophy Question
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Existence Goodness Object Original Result

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