"Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved."

-- Aristotle

#Would Be Quotes #Citizens Quotes #Body Quotes

“Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.”
“Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.”

Source : Bill McKibben (2010). “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet”, p.13, Macmillan
“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”

Source : Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”
“There are little Indian girls out there who look up to me, and I never want to belittle the honor of being an inspiration to them. But while Iâ€™m talking about why Iâ€™m so different, white male show runners get to talk about their art.”
“I'm tired of justifying what I've said.”
“Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction-up, down, sideways-by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.”
“In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning.”
“I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.”

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