"I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings."

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Source : Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.35

Charles Lamb

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“Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.”
“God hath not revealed anything to Joseph, but what he will make known unto the Twelve, and even the least Saint may know all things as fast as he is able to bear them...”
“I am like all other atheists only in that I do not believe there are any gods. Beyond that, I may differ dramatically in my values and beliefs from any other atheist. On both sides of the political spectrum, one can find the neo-conservative Objectivists and the ultra-liberal Communists, both of whom hate each other. These two factions take up nearly opposite sets of values, yet both are comprised of unabashed atheists.”
“Education is a human right with immense power to transform”
“In order for the second scenario to win, the world would have to return where the struggle for independence and against Western colonialism and imperialism was lost or abandoned more than 50 years ago. Let's face it: the world was never really completely de-colonized. It would be total hypocrisy to claim otherwise.”
“The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses on Wall Street even among the professionals, who feel that they must take home some money every day, as though they were working for regular wages.”
“To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to to grow intellectually.”
“The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.”

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