"Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty."

-- David Halberstam

#Modesty Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“There is no vaccine against stupidity.”
“As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.”
“If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.”
“I hope by the time I'm 30 to have a husband and maybe a baby.”
“We have very stable, solid economy; we are going through challenging times.”
“Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.”
“It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.”
“The first morning after Westley's departure, Buttercup thought she was entitled to do nothing more than sit around moping and feeling sorry for herself. After all, the love of her life had fled, life had no meaning, how could you face the future, et cetera, et cetera.”

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