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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.

John Stuart Mill

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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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Desire Liberty Oneself
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Choice Custom Himself
When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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Crush Despotism Individual
A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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Conviction Feeling Man Raise
Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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Body Mindset Oneself Sovereign
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.
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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