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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.

John Stuart Mill

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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Adoption Experience Greatness Movement
There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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Circle Government Imagination Step
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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Home Meaning Personal Realize Truth
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Happiness Philosophy Question
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
I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.
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Conservatism Fact Myself Question Stupidity Thinking
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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Errors Fatal Mistake Reason Tendency Thinking
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
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Himself Moral Prevent Purpose Right Willing
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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Ability Act Belief Majority Man
Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
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Aspiration Beautiful Natural Presence Sick Society Solitude
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Bad End Goodness Man
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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Absence Action Happiness Pain Pleasure Proportion Reverse Right
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Feeling Mindset Oneself Original
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
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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Choice Himself Imitation Planning World
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

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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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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