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“To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.”
Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”
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“When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.”
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“We went on tour with Phoenix. I don't really know anything about Phoenix I'd heard a couple songs. And I thought, I don't really know if I want to go on this, it's kind of weird, kind of a pain in the ***** for us. But everyone was like YOU HAVE TO DO IT, it's going to be so good for your career. And I mean I don't know if it was good for our career but the guys in the band were super huge sweethearts.”
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“When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.”
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“Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.”
Source : Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”
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“I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was an abused wife. Just -- there's tons of things that I couldn't even mention. And for me to come up and to have all of this fame and fortune, it's just.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“One of the rather unedifying truths about grief is it does block out more or less everything. It has a solipsistic quality to it.”
Source : "Decca Aitkenhead on Empathy and Memory". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016.
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“Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.”
Source : "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.
