"The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it."

-- Joseph Addison

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“Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.”
“Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.”
“I think the women in the political positions will push very, very hard to see that there are loans and banks for women in Rwanda.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Behind me, Marc made a soft whistling sound, clearly impressed. â€œThatâ€™s not standard procedure,â€ he said, his tone entirely too reasonable as he leaned over the strayâ€™s body to open the back passenger-side door. â€œYeah, well, Iâ€™m not your standard enforcer.”
“It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.”
“If I read the Bible, I can also find a few harsh verdicts. Every religion can be abused. We're not talking here about religion and faith. We are talking about the politicization of Islam, and, by the way, it is first and foremost exerting pressure on the majority of peaceful Muslims who live here in Germany.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.”
“Revolution is obstructed evolution.”

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