"Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous."

-- Peter Kreeft

#Purpose Quotes #Ethics Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed,”
“They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.”

Source : "In Rufinum". Book I. 22,
“Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.”

Source : Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.239, Modern Library
“The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.”
“Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.”

Source : Diane Ravitch (2011). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.118, Basic Books
“People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.”
“I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Even before I was a Democrat, I was a Zionist.”

Source : "New Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Draws Praise From All Sides" by Nathan Guttman, forward.com. April 24, 2008.

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