"If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge."

-- Jean Paul

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“If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying. There is nothing bad about doing that. It is like calling the British Brits, or the Irish Paddies.”

Source : "Forfeit Whelan's donations over 'antisemitic' comments, says Labour" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2014.
“They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that.”

Source : Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.168, Applewood Books
“When I do Pilates, or when I do work out, I feel better all day. Yet I still struggle to keep it on my schedule.”
“Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.”
“I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.”

Source : Barbara Pym (1981). “Jane and Prudence”, Dutton Adult
“All art of the past must be destroyed.”

Source : "Remembering French Composer, Conductor And Musical Provocateur Pierre Boulez". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 6, 2016.
“The kind of gratitude that receives even tribulations with thanksgiving requires a broken heart and a contrite spirit, humility to accept that which we cannot change, willingness to turn everything over to the Lord -even when we do not understand, thankfulness for hidden opportunities yet to be revealed. Then comes a sense of peace. â€œWhen was the last time you thanked the Lord for a trial or tribulation? Adversity compels us to go to our knees; does gratitude for adversity do that as well?”
“We tell market researchers that we don't mind paying more for green benefits but only a minority of zealots ever really will. A campaign that delivers more widespread green behaviour is going to need to be cleverer that that.”

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