"Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action."

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Source : James Harrington (1737). “The Oceana and Other Works”, p.42

James Harrington

#Passion Quotes #Men Quotes #Vices Quotes

“The two black lines on the armband means that they're the deceased's family. One line means they are either friends or acquaintances. One line of the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines, they'll be the hardest farewells I'll have to make in my life, and they're the luckiest fortune I've met in my lifetime.”
“I can't sing anything other than country!”
“Some of the homes that have been built in the last 10 years just appall me. Why do humans need huge homes? I was born poor and I didnâ€™t know you bought clothes at anything but the Goodwill until I went to college. Some of our mentality about what it means to have a good life is, I think, not going to help us in the next 50 years. We have to think through how to choose a meaningful life where weâ€™re helping one another in ways that really help the Earth.”

Source : "Elinor Ostrom Wins Nobel for Common(s) Sense". Interview with Fran Korten, www.yesmagazine.org. February 26, 2010.
“So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.”

Source : "Stephen Hawking at 70: Fellow scientists pay tribute" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.
“I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.”
“It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.”
“The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.”

Source : Adam Phillips (2017). “In Writing”, p.223, Penguin UK
“The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who is there for life.”

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