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“One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.”
Source : Bret Harte (1887). “The Poetical Works, Including the Drama of "The Two Men of Sandy Bar", of Bret Harte ...”
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“I hate making TV documentaries.”
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“It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.”
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“Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions”
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“This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage . . . What about our own roots? . . . I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices.”
Source : R. K. Narayan (2012). “The English Teacher”, p.328, Vintage
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“As you can see, I'm in good health. I have no message; just tell them, please, that I went to my death quietly and in good health.”
Source : "War Criminal: The Life and Death of Hirota Koki". Book by Saburō Shiroyama, p. 296, 1977.
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“We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to sneak any kind of sermon into a story - I've got no business preaching, and besides, that kind of thing plays poorly in fiction, always has.”
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“The only way to make a criticism of something is to really participate in it. I'm a completely capitalist person. I participate in commodity culture and the fashion world. High art is a money-making vehicle. We're not making art in a vacuum. We're not shopping in the woods. These are all things that we do within the larger system of capitalism. For me to critique it, I'm also participating in it. That's obvious, I feel. In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.”
Source : Source: www.elle.com