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If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

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The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

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If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I'd be your slave.

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History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

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I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.

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He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded.

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If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

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Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

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The interests of all Cypriots would be advanced with a bizonal bicommunal federation.

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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

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If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

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The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

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So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies.

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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

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When happiness gets into your system, it is bound to break out on your face. While money can't buy happiness it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. You always know, at this very moment, exactly what it would be to look, and feel, and be, and act completely Happy.

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If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

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