One person with a belief is a social power equal to 99 who have only interests.
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As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.John Stuart Mill
There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
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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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All that makes existence valuable to anyone, depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
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