"I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief."

-- George Eliot

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“It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him.”
“It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.”
“Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.”
“One volcano puts out more toxic gases - one volcano - than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this climate change, and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells.”

Source : "Raese to Bank on Cap and Trade Against Manchin" by Scott Conroy, Erin McPike, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 27, 2010.
“We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human beings are in this world to learn and to change themselves in learning.”

Source : Traudl Junge (2012). “Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary”, p.6, Hachette UK
“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”
“The people at the CafÃ© Lehmitz had a presence and a sincerity that I myself lacked. It was okay to be desperate, to be tender, to sit all alone or share the company of others. There was a great warmth and tolerance in this destitute setting.”
“What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?”

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