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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

John Stuart Mill

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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Brief Complex Luck Photography
When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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Ability Challenge Defend Ideas Weakness
There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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Force Hope Listening Side
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
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
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
Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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Stupidity World
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
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Development Force Human Live Machine Nature Requirement Tree
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Feeling Mindset Oneself Original
Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.
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Crime Necessary Offend Premium Punishment State
Language is the light of the mind.
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Language Light Mindset
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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Marriage Perspective Slave Wife Word
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
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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Advancement Custom Despotism Human
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Existence Goodness Object Original Result
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

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

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