"Strict law is often great injustice."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“People who go around saying that it is wrong to fly and to eat meat are not so much making appeals to us from within our shared morality, but engaging in something more like "persuasive definition." They want us to look at the world and ourselves in a different way. Someday these prohibitions against flying and eating meat may be written into our moral psychology, but it will only be after there are viable, widely shared alternatives that are beginning to be widely adopted.”
“The kids just aren't the same today.”
“If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.”
“As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.”

Source : Donna Woolfolk Cross (2009). “Pope Joan: A Novel”, p.84, Broadway Books
“There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.”
“That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.”
“Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything.”
“You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.”

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