"Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal."

-- Aristotle

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“Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in oneâ€™s community back from the path of sin.”
“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.”
“If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities. It is undeniably an effort, but probably one worth making, for the basic questions are important and the new experimental results are often fascinating. And if the layman runs into serious perplexities, he can be consoled with the thought that the points which baffle him are more than likely the ones for which the professionals have not found satisfactory answers.”

Source : "Physics, in What is Science?: Twelve Eminent Scientists and Philosophers Explain Their Various Fields to the Layman". Book by James Roy Newman, published by Simon and Schuster, p. 102, 1955.
“The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds.”

Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”
“Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?”

Source : Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.28, Atlantic Books Ltd
“The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.”

Source : Imamu Amiri Baraka (1984). “Daggers and javelins: essays, 1974-1979”, William Morrow & Co
“Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.”
“The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.”

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