"Morality is not a spectator sport."

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Source : Kevin Ryan, Thomas Lickona (1992). “Character Development in Schools and Beyond”, p.356, CRVP

Thomas Lickona

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“As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.”
“My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them.”
“What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.”
“Somebody who is purified with life enough would be able to read your feeling before it becomes a word in your mouth. It is not very hard to understand - and you meet people like that. Almost everything is very factual and scientific and not exaggerated.”
“There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.”
“We're a live band. Some bands write their songs in the studio - we don't do that. We're playing songs on this tour that were written three days before the tour. And it feels good to try these songs.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.”
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”

Source : "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

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