"Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals."

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Joseph Joubert

#Moral Quotes #Ancient Quotes #Contempt Quotes

“The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.”
“What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into the image of perfection that ruled the day in the 18th and 19th centuries. It's an antiquated language, but I think we've inherited that language and have forwarded it to its most useful points in the 21st century.”
“The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.”
“We considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians â€“ they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag.”
“The guys I tended to date, you know, didn't necessarily have it altogether but I had a great time.”
“Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.”
“If you tear open our heart, you will only see Rahul Gandhi...like Hanuman”
“In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.”

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