"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.”
“Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.”

Source : Henry Mintzberg (2009). “Managers Not Mbas: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development: Easyread Edition”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com
“In many societies the domestic social costs of adjustment to changing patterns of comparative advantage are believed to outweigh the advantages of further trade liberalization.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.228, Princeton University Press
“I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.”
“Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!”
“We never give more honour to Jesus than when we honour his Mother, and we honour her simply and solely to honour him all the more perfectly. We go to her only as a way leading to the goal we seek - Jesus, her Son.”

Source : Saint Louis de Montfort (2016). “True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort”, p.61, Danka
“I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.
“It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.”

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