"Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed."

-- Alexander Pope

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“While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.”
“There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes.”
“My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."”
“He's a great - he's a great professor. He retired recently, but.But Peter Halley as well.”
“On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.”

Source : Meriwether Lewis (2012). “History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.”, p.46, tredition
“The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.”
“Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.”
“Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.”

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