"There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking."

-- Oswald Chambers

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“I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.”
“The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.”

Source : A Fragment on Government preface (1776). Bentham said that he derived this formula from either Joseph Priestley or Cesare Beccaria; Beccaria is the more likely. If Priestley was the source, then Bentham was paraphrasing him because the phrase is not found in Priestley's writings. See Beccaria 1; Hutcheson 1
“If itâ€™s not edible, itâ€™s not food. If itâ€™s not wearable, itâ€™s not fashion.”
“I also picked prostitutes as victims because they were easy to pick up, without being noticed. I knew they would not be reported missing right away, and might never be reported missing.”
“Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.”
“The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started.”

Source : "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid". Book by Douglas Hofstadter, 1979.
“I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.”

Source : "The Pumpkin Coach". Book by Louis Paul, 1935.
“Love is the very essence of life.”

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