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The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by…
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There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it…
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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,…
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure,…
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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of…
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Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as…
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,…
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It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis,…
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The Bread that we need each day to grow in eternal life, makes of our will a docile instrument of the Divine…
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And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does…
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What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.
— Thales
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