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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.

John Stuart Mill

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
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
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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Action Existence People Value
Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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Body Mindset Oneself Sovereign
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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Genius Growth Minority Person Preserve Small
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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Government Necessary Power Reason Restriction
Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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Happiness Myself Object Thinking
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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Compose Individual State Worth
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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Adoption Experience Greatness Movement
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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Cultivation Life Mental Reason Satisfaction
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
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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Finding Freedom Liberty Lying Right
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Happiness Philosophy Question
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
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
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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Growth Money Rich Risk Sleep

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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