"Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue."

-- Joseph Addison

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“Some of my funniest thoughts come to me while I'm taking a shower.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists and politicians - all of them, down to the meanest grocer, repeat in chorus the words of Voltaire, that if there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.”
“The person who creates from the noise simply adds to the noise. The person who creates from a place of listening, however, can actually make something worthwhile and enjoy his work in the process.”
“Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.”
“Dead is the cradle of everything.”

Source : "Thinkings" by Antoni Lange,
“Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.”
“I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group”
“Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.”

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