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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

John Stuart Mill

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.
JOHN STUART MILL

Better Different Fools Human Opinion Question Satisfaction
The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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Eternal Liberty Love Power
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
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
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Greatness Mindset Opinion Small
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
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Deserve Effort Freedom Name Pursue
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Feeling Mindset Oneself Original
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
So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov’t.
JOHN STUART MILL

Freedom Government Harm Law Live Thinking
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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Ability Action Himself Pupil Work
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 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
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Existence Goodness Object Original Result
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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Himself Liberty Limitation Nuisance People
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
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
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
JOHN STUART MILL

Adoption Experience Greatness Movement

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