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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Tacitus
We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'
Levi Strauss
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William Penn
Tags: More Than Would
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Tags: Good He Many
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If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.


William Bennett
Tags: Peace Our Make
Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.
Paul Bloom
So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.
Margaret Whiting
Tags: Music About Out
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This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.


Atul Gawande
Tags: Any Point Care
There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species persists, we're still just infants. We're way too young of a species to tell if we were a creative fluke or if we have any staying power.
Greg Graffin
Tags: Power Just Way
I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.
Viggo Mortensen
Tags: Up Life Make
Human beings never think for themselves; they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.
Michael Crichton
Tags: Think Our Never
I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading.
Jason Mewes
Tags: Good Because Been
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
Thorstein Veblen
Many fans don't have the leisure time to track my every word. They're too busy brainstorming solutions to the economic crisis and winning Pulitzers.
Michael Showalter
Tags: Time Every Many
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou
Tags: Good Make Any
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert Camus
Tags: Man Must Enough
Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain.
Jonathan Mayhew
Tags: People Find Must
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I took tap classes growing up.


Jon M. Chu
Tags: Up Growing Took
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I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.


Sid Vicious
Tags: Only Any Bit
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If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror.


John Young
Tags: You Get Up