"We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus, Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]"

-- Horace

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“I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold.”
“I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.”
“The sky was yellow and the sun was blue...”
“There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.”
“The Oscar nominations are out, and theyâ€™re so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them,”

Source : "'The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore' Debuts In Slot Vacated By Stephen Colbert". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. January 20, 2015.
“I've never really considered myself a home run hitter. Mostly I'm a guy who hits into the gaps for a lot of doubles.”
“In a world that has lost a sense of sin, one sin remains: Thou shalt not make people feel guilty (except, of course, about making people feel guilty). In other words, the only sin today is to call something a sin.”
“One of the problems with traditional anti-capitalist thought is that it defines capitalism as a totality, which encourages us to imagine another totality, socialism, which we can try to replace it with. This totalizing perspective has colonized the imagination of anti-capitalism and left us waiting for a revolution we can never have.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

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