"You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in."

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Becoming Quotes #Ethical Quotes #Responsible Quotes

“There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.”
“I'll go for God, country, and my baby. Sure, as these teardrops burn, I promise to return, and when I'm home, I'll cling to the arms of my baby.”

Source : Song: God, Country And My Baby
“Ray Gomez is truly an unsung hero in American music.”
“Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament”
“The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.”
“Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.”
“Pain involves the violation or transgression of the border between inside and outside, and it is through this transgression that I feel the border in the first place”

Source : Sara Ahmed (2014). “Cultural Politics of Emotion”, p.35, Edinburgh University Press
“Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.”

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