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So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.
John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart Mill
Age: 67 †
Born: 1806
Born: January 1
Died: 1873
Died: January 1
Autobiographer
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Economist
Egalitarianism
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Suffragist
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Islington
J. S. Mill
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Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
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All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.
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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 making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow from it and by observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our assumption.
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Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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