"Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other."

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Source : Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.154

James Fitzjames Stephen

#Morality Quotes #Variety Quotes

“How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.”

Source : "The Female Man". Book by Joanna Russ (Part 2, Chapter 5, p. 22), February 1975.
“I don't think we'll discover anything, myself. I think what will happen is we'll discover people who will tell us where to go find it. It is not like a treasure hunt where you just runaround looking everywhere hoping you find something. I just don't think that's going to happen. The inspectors didn't find anything, and I doubt that we will. What we will do is find the people who will tell us.”
“Just because someone's pretty, doesn't mean she's decent.”
“A lot of that I base on, "Is it still going to sound interesting and fresh to me in five years, am I going to be embarrassed by this in five years?" It's easier for me to do stark, moody, pretty stuff, and I have all this pop stuff inside me, but it's a lot more dangerous, and pop is just apt to sound contrived and sort of pedestrian if you're not careful.”
“Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives.”
“If you can engage the influencerâ€™s passions, and work with them to craft a compelling logical appeal, then you can leverage the credibility of the influencer to actually sway hearts and minds.”
“The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky theyre going to give Cleveland State another year of probation.”
“Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.”

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