"If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it."

-- Epictetus

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“If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles?”

Source : Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (1982). “More joy of lex: an amazing and amusing Z to A and A to Z of words”, William Morrow & Co
“There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“We've got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part of that. So there's a lot of trips to the hockey games. As I tell idiotic, stupid, youth-sport parents, it's about the drive there and the drive back, not about the trophy or how your kid played. We've always had a good relationship with our kids. You're driving with them and talking to them at the age of eight. It became this adventure and they learned to love it. You connect, you really do. It's not for every family”
“Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door to a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.”
“Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.”
“I believe we are reincarnated. You, I, we reincarnate over and over. We live many lives, and store up much experience. Some are older souls than others and so they know more. It seems to be an intuitive "gift." It is really hard-won experience.”
“Only the rich can get justice, only the poor cannot escape it.”

Source : Henry Demarest Lloyd, Alun Munslow, Owen R. Ashton (1995). “Henry Demarest Lloyd's critiques of American capitalism, 1881-1903”, Edwin Mellen Pr
“When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.”

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