"Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had."

-- Joseph Wood Krutch

#Ethics Quotes #Bases Quotes

“everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun.”
“Your body has such a memory.”
“Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting”

Source : Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.17, New Directions Publishing
“I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing . . . Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?”
“Our military is overextended. Nine out of 10 active-duty Army divisions are either in Iraq, going to Iraq or have come back from Iraq. One way or the other, they're wrapped up in it.”
“I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.”
“The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.”
“The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.”

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