"True virtue is life under the direction of reason."

-- Baruch Spinoza

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“Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for?”
“For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.”
“I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be”

Source : Joan Didion (1968). “Slouching towards Bethlehem”
“There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.”
“If something I make succeeds, people say it was luck. But I don't just throw myself into the unknown. I research my subjects and listen constantly to what the characters have to say. Luck comes into it, but the story is made by them.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“What is needed to break the vicious spiral is a world-wide change in attitudes, values, and social policy. As Einstein put it, "We need a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."”

Source : "New Mindset on Consciousness". Sunrise magazine, www.theosophy-nw.org. December 1987/January 1988.
“Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I mean the way in which a progressive might claim that empathy is a crucial aspect of any benign political system, and the way a conservative might argue that not only is it not necessary, but it might not even be all that helpful, in that regard.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.”

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