"We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience."

-- Tryon Edwards

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“The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.”
“Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.”
“Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.”
“Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!”
“No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.”
“As a game-show host, what I'm thinking and what I'm experiencing doesn't matter. My opinion doesn't matter. So there's a flattened reality to it. It's fun to do. But it's certainly not myself in totality - or even maybe a little bit.”

Source : "Michael Ian Black on the many versions of 'himself'". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. October 22, 2013.
“People with passion are incredibly inventive and tenacious individuals. They go way beyond the call of duty and frequently either work on their passion without pay or give more of themselves than their pay warrants. And I do not equate passion with workaholism, in which people say they love their work so much they do it all the time. Workaholics are working to fill a vacuum, or to escape, not to connect with their souls.”
“The best form of service is to uplift someone's state of mind.”

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