"Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end."

-- Aristotle

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“I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light.Â What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.”

Source : Patricia Cummings Loud, Louis I. Kahn, Duke University. Museum of Art (1989). “The Art Museums of Louis I. Kahn”, p.263, Duke University Press
“Vince Lombardi says, you know, in my life there are three things: God, family, and the Green Bay Packers, in that order. For me, it's God, family, and Yahoo, in that order.”
“Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.”

Source : Renata Adler (1999). “Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker”
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.”
“And Zach was taking his jacket off and draping it around my shoulders, which (according to Liz, who double checked with Macey) is the single-sexiest thing a guy can do.”
“I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold..." But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.”

Source : Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “King's Blood Four”, p.47, Hachette UK
“I'm a huge fan of burgers, and they're not my wife's favorite, so we don't cook them at home.”

Source : "Chatting with Jose Garces". www.philly.com. October 8, 2009.
“Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.”

Source : Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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