"... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!"

-- Phyllis Bottome

#Lying Quotes #Doe Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.”
“Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.”
“Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.”
“I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as to experiment, and thus be qualified at an early part of their study to discriminate between the true and the false, and acquire the facts of the science without being mystified by its fictions.”

Source : John Joseph Griffin (1838). “Chemical Recreations: A Compendium of Experimental Chemistry”, p.14
“Stan Lee always wanted to do another syndicated strip while we were doing Spider-Man. I was working two jobs, and he wanted to make time to do another strip. He wanted to do a humor strip. I said, 'Stan, I barely make it through the week now. How the hell am I going to do another strip?' He said, 'Oh, I'm sorry, I always forget it takes you longer to do a page than it takes me to do twenty pages.'”
“I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.”
“My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home and rotate with other families. I recall priests coming to our home and saying Mass in our living room. Catholicism was really woven through so much.”
“A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in that way. Perhaps, however, within the self there might come a resonance, the awareness of having done something difficult, of having done . . . something.”

Source : Guy Gavriel Kay (2005). “The Last Light of the Sun”, p.335, Penguin

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