"This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath."

-- Anthony the Great

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“My handicap? Woods and irons.”
“Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive for government to deprive people of their unalienable, individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to make an utter mess of their own lives. Since human beings are inclined to learn more from the mistakes they make, rather than from their triumphs, the right to fail, for individuals and groups alike, may be even more important than the right to succeed, and it must be fiercely protected at almost any cost.”
“Milton, when he went blind, declared that he could now begin the real work of his life. Similarly, with the merciless passage of time reducing my phisical strengh, I find myself less able to explore the outer world, but better prepared to explore the inner.”
“Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.”
“The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.”
“But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.”

Source : Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”
“I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.”
“I seen a pig so big itâ€™d block out the sun.”

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