"The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them - no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less."

-- Edward Fredkin

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“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
“[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.”

Source : Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”
“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.”

Source : Dormer Creston, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1943). “Andromeda in Wimpole Street: the love story of Robert and Elizabeth Browning told in their letters”
“Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.”

Source : "Correcting the Rumors" by Terry Richardson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2014.
“If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed”
“I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.”
“God's image is the married couple, a man and women, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. No, both of them. That's God's image.”
“How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?”

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