"The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name."

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

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“My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.”
“Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don't, they're going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.”
“For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.”
“Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.”
“I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed.”
“Ronald Reagan memorably combined intimacy with distance.”
“I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. "If a piece of work is heavy and complicated then it is wrong." . . . Some writers feel that to express their ideas in simple terms is degrading. Some use complexity to disguise the paucity of their material. In fact, simplicity is a virtue and when, as here, it is both original and useful, it can represent a real advance in knowledge.”
“The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.”

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