"It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels."

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Fukuzawa Yukichi

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“My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.”
“Revere the body and care for it, for it is a temple.”
“What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.”
“Respect the old, but seek out the new.”
“Penguins are an indicator of the health of our watery planet, and if they are unable to survive, we had better take notice or we might find our own survival threatened.”

Source : "Penguins". Book by Martin Rees (p. 160), March 1, 2009.
“Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.”
“Good environmentalism is good economics”

Source : Barber B. Conable (1991). “The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91”
“Men. One minute they have their tongues down your throat and the next they're forbidding you from meeting your own father and criticizing your fashion choices.”

Source : Gemma Halliday (2015). “Killer in High Heels: High Heels Mysteries book #2”, p.20, Gemma Halliday Publishing

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