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• The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
  -- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English economist, philosophe...
• The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
• That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
  John Stuart Mill...
• The worth of the State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing i
  and a State which postpones the interest of their mental expansion and elevation to a little more of administrative skill, or of that semblance of it which practice gives in the details of business....
• Language is the light of the mind. -- John Stuart Mill
• Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men. -- John Stuart Mill
• The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others .
  .. over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign....
• A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight fo
  othing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself....
• They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them
  and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time....