"Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to thinkâ€¦"

-- John Stuart Mill

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“Most bands people have side projects and it's not considered a death threat as it was say, with The Beatles.”
“In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning of a natural philosophy. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.”
“I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.”

Source : James Geary (2008). “Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beingsâ€¦”

Source : Avery Gordon, Angela Davis (2015). “Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People”, p.54, Routledge
“One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by making use of those religious and literary privileges and advantages that are within their reach, if they will only stretch out their hands and possess them.”

Source : Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.121
“It's a little strange, after all these years of working on camera, but once you start to watch the other people who do this a lot and realize how much of what you're doing has to just come through your voice, I found it really interesting.”
“Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.”
“I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.”

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