"Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action."

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Source : Thomas Lickona (2009). “Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility”, p.51, Bantam

Thomas Lickona

#Character Quotes #Heart Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.”
“The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.”
“If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.”
“When The Murderdolls started it was a really cool thing, especially for me because I had never done anything on that scale before. Even for our drummer and bass player it was their first really big band.”
“If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.”

Source : Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (2003). “Dubin's Lives: A Novel”, p.87, Macmillan
“Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution of international relations.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.171, Princeton University Press
“It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.”
“Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.”

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