"Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish."

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Source : Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee

Theodore Dalrymple

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“I think we're just going to have to live with the microcosm in the electronic world of the kind of things that we might see in the physical world.”

Source : "Computing Pioneers Discuss the State of the Net". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 22, 2005.
“Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.”
“How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?”
“Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.”
“I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing books about the living to the unborn (tucked away as Literature) or writing books about the unborn to the living (whiffed away as prophecy). I put up my life on advertising the living to the living, on making men of genius known to the people and interpreted to their time, that the time in which I live, may live face to face with its men of vision and that they may live face to face with one another.”

Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1919). “The House of Twenty Seven Gardens”
“Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail to look beyond the surface will never encounter true virtue - not in others and certainly not in themselves.”
“TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.”
“We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.”

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