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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

John Stuart Mill

All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.
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Aspect Examination Ideas Ourselves Support Truth
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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Different Understand Unique Woman
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Existence Goodness Object Original Result
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
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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Experience Flavor Life Risk Shelter
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
One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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Belief Equality Interest Person
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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Crush Despotism Individual
A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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Conviction Feeling Man Raise
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
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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Advancement Custom Human Obstacle
With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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Equality Experience Herself Man Woman
When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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Ability Challenge Defend Ideas Weakness
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
Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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Brief Complex Luck Photography
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.
JOHN STUART MILL

Kind Man Oneself Opinion Power Silence

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