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As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends. Jeremy Bentham

Impossible Censorship Evil Tell Results Ends Where Which Measure

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. Jeremy Bentham

Happiness Morals Greatest Greatest Happiness Greatest Number Legislation Foundation Number

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. Jeremy Bentham

Tyranny Anarchy Never Apart Far

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed. Joe Strummer

Wisdom You Age Power Crushed Control System See Only Could Supposedly Became Were Very Very Early Age Quickly Authority Any Either Realized Inherent Grounded Early Early Age

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart. John Bunyan

Prayer Heart Words Better Out Without Than

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation. John Cleese

Made Several Times Confrontation Poor Choice Avoiding Necessary

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else. John Galsworthy

Man Nothing Else Sum He His Done Actions

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. John Keats

Will Angel Philosophy Wings Clip

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. John Keats

Great Failure Hell Object Than

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. John Locke

Inspirational Time People Path Spot Walking Same Appears

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. John Locke

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state. John Locke

Change World Long Nothing State Flux Constant Remains Same Things

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. John Maynard Keynes

Others Investing Anticipating Successful

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. John Maynard Keynes

Education Indifferent Incompetent Incomprehensible

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. John Maynard Keynes

Success Beautiful War Capitalism Virtuous Ourselves Deliver Individualistic Goods Intelligent Decadent Hands Just After Which International Found

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe. John Milton

Overcome Half Foe Hath Overcomes Force His Who

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time. John Ray

Time Nothing Invented Same Same Time

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. John Ruskin

Great Architect Only He Builder Person Sculptor Who Painter

I believe that in the end the truth will conquer. John Wycliffe

Truth Will Believe End In The End Conquer

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Joseph Addison

Clouds Mind Kind Steady Mirth Through Lightning Daylight Like Cheerfulness Gloom Perpetual Up Flash Breaks Moment Serenity Fills Keeps

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. Joseph Addison

Best Health Mind Promoter Cheerfulness Friendly Body

I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully. Judy Parfitt

Old Darling About Know Gracefully Just Growing Growing Old

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