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Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting in the response of your listener.

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John Stuart Mill

It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference about the well-being of others'.

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However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.

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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

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The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.

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There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.

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All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

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