"Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness."

-- John Tillotson

#Vices Quotes #Arbitrary Quotes #Wickedness Quotes

“I embraced, I think, the process of becoming No. 1 of the world, which was long and difficult, but it's sweeter in the end.”
“There's a hell of a lot of politics in football.”
“When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself”

Source : Ida P. Rolf, Rosemary Feitis (1990). “Rolfing and Physical Reality”, p.31, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
“It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists - deride other people because of their different beliefs and lifestyles.”
“There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.”
“The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.”

Source : Tom Shippey (2014). “The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.304, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I think the death penalty's easier than life in prison,”
“Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable”

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