"Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions."

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Source : William Whewell (1845). “The Elements of Morality, Including Polity”, p.172

William Whewell

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“We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.”
“Brett Kavanaugh is a brilliant, brilliant judge and one of the most-distinguished conservative jurists in the country.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.”
“Our dreams make us large.”

Source : "Ava DuVernay Will Be the First Black Woman to Direct a DC Superhero Movie" by Julyssa Lopez, www.glamour.com. March 16, 2018.
“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”
“'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.”
“It was clear to me that if we allowed the Freedom Ride to stop at that point, just after so much violence had been inflicted, the message would have been sent that all you have to do to stop a nonviolent campaign is inflict massive violence,”

Source : "Freedom Riders Reflect On 50th Anniversary". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 4, 2011.
“I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literatureâ€”not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not happened.”

Source : Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.127, University of Chicago Press

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