"All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live."

-- Betty Smith

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“It's not just that people with no education have worse health. People with a bit of education at somewhat better, with a lot of education it's even better. And with even more education it's better still.”
“In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.”
“A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.”

Source : "Outside Ethics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2005.
“If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.”
“When you say the tax system benefits the rich, there are a lot of people who respond, "That can't be true, look at the rate of tax. The people who are rich pay a higher rate than you or I." Well, yeah, but if you don't have to pay taxes on a lot of your income, then your real tax rate is a lot lower. And if you're allowed to pay your taxes thirty years from now instead of today then you're a lot better off. People need to have a sophisticated understanding of how the system works to appreciate that the posted tax rate really has very little to do with the taxes people pay.”
“It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.”
“Doubt is a necessary precondition tomeaningful action. Fear is the great mover in the end.”
“If better were within, better would come out.”

Source : Simon Patrick (1858). “The Works of Symon Patrick: Including His Autobiography”, p.334

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