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Jean Ferris

"You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous manifestations of good. Especially if you act right away. The longer you let evil hang around and get a grip on you, the harder it is to get rid of it."

Source : Jean Ferris (2016). “The Tales of Marigold Three Books in One!: Once Upon a Marigold, Twice Upon a Marigold, Thrice Upon a Marigold”, p.543, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jean Ferris

#Hard Times Quotes #Self Quotes #Evil Quotes

“To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?”

Source : Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.380, Penguin
“When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.”
“Visiting Saturn sounds like a lot of fun but you will die!”
“English music is white - it evades everything.”

Source : Edward Elgar, Percy Marshall Young (1968). “A future for English music, and other lectures”
“The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we take one step at a time. Every field has its complexities and controversies. And so does ethics. And every field has its basics. So too with values.”
“Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.”
“The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.”
“If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.”

"You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous manifestations of good. Especially if you act right away. The longer you let evil hang around and get a grip on you, the harder it is to get rid of it."

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