"Whatever mourns when many leave these shores: Whatever shares The eternal reciprocity of tears."

-- Wilfred Owen

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“Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.”
“We won't get any growth in Greece by just imposing cuts. What I would prefer is a special economic zone for Greece.”
“This is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to be rich and famous. That thatâ€™s why people do what they do. And you know, all through these pages you learn over and over again no, actually not even NFL cheerleaders are doing it for fame and fortune. Thereâ€™s another motivation going on that is so pure and human. That to me was an eye-opener in a really wonderful way.”
“If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living apart,' Aristotle writes, their association can't really be considered a polis, or political community. 'A polis is not an association for residence on a common site, or for the sake of preventing mutual injustice and easing exchange.' While these conditions are necessary to a polis, they are not sufficient. 'The end and purpose of a polis is the good life, and the institutions of social life are means to that end.”
“The world knows nothing of its greatest men.”
“Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.”
“Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.”
“The appetites of the body were private battles.”

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