The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
JOHN STUART MILLLandlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.
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Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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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.
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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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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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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Human beings are no longer born to their place in life…but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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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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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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