"Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started."

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Source : Mary Midgley (2004). “The Myths We Live by”, p.104, Psychology Press

Mary Midgley

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“The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.”
“My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.”
“Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.”

Source : Robert C. Solomon (1987). “From Hegel to Existentialism”, p.130, Oxford University Press
“You have no idea how crazy I am, I should be wearing yellow Caution tape, I'm that bonkers.”

Source : Robin Benway (2010). “The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June”, p.79, Penguin
“It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all.”
“I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.”

Source : Cameron Dokey (2011). “Golden”, p.86, Simon and Schuster
“At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2001.
“When I watch animals, I realize I am watching individual with lives that matter, to them. It isn't just another chicken or another mouse. She is that particular hen, autonomous and unique. He is that particular mouse with a unique life and social identity.”

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