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The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

#being #die #form #how #know

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#failures #faults #good #good pair #having

My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side. ↗

— Bode Miller

#electricity #era #exposure #got #growing

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. ↗

— Henry Miller

#being #come #having #peace #through

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#biggest #complaint #culture #enough #eternity

Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#living #make #out #point #sell

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic. ↗

— Frank Miller

#anybody #being #convince #ever #how

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people. ↗

— Frank Miller

#characters #defined #environment #having #how

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ↗

— Henry Miller

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