Quotes and Sayings About Mills
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I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
-- Barbara Jordan -
The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!
-- Bill HaywoodSource : "The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Bill Haywood (p. 171), 1929.
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Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.
-- Colin MacInnesSource : 1961 England, Half English,'England, Half English'.
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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.
-- Eileen FavoriteSource : Eileen Favorite (2009). “The Heroines: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
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Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.
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I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
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Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.
-- Friedrich von LogauSource : Sinnegedichte no. 3224 (1654) (translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).
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It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
-- Henry James -
Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!
-- James Thomas FieldsSource : "In a strange Land". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.
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Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
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The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
-- Mary Stewart -
What's the Matter with the Mill?
-- Memphis MinnieSource : Song: What's the Matter with the Mill?
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Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would appear, happiness can only be glimpsed out of the corner of an eye, not stared at directly.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.
-- Orison Swett Marden -
Our very genesis was not really a beginning after all, but indeed the product of a personality-Father Mills.
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Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.
-- Todd GitlinSource : Todd Gitlin (2013). “The Intellectuals and the Flag: Reclaiming the American Liberal Tradition”, p.28, Columbia University Press
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Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again?
-- Trenton Lee Stewart -
The idea that Bentham and Mill were maximizers is the greatest stretch of all. They were progressivists, committed to improving the societies in which they lived, not utopian maximizers.
-- Dale JamiesonSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.
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We've had a day of great drama and of humour too. The rumour mill is now taking over
-- Andy Burnham -
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Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.
-- Chen-Ning Yang