"The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington."

-- Edwin Percy Whipple

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“The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me.”

Source : "How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world" by Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2012.
“We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.”
“Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.”
“As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more advanced ones, the latter are merely elaborations on the former and remain dependent on them. This also means that empathy comes naturally to us. It is not something we only learn later in life, or that is culturally constructed.”
“For me, appropriate policy means that we continue to reduce accommodation and return to a neutral federal funds rate”
“Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated., When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind.”
“There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.”
“I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant reference point, and against that I oppose the movements of the model's limbs.”

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