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"Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man."
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"Usually when we talk about blessings, we experience joy and anticipation of a greater presence of God in our lives."
"People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life."
"I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute."
"Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting."
"If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can stand beside the stilled graves of a thousand soldiers fallen in defense of freedom and not feel a thing. And my most solemn prayer is that I will never be this."
"If you have life, you have everything."
"Thanksgiving is not only being aware of the abundance of good in the world but embracing it."
"With all respect to your religion or world-view - thank God, thank the universe, thank evolutionary processes - the keyword is "thank" - just have some gratitude and be thankful."
"Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything."
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"Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry."
"A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named."
"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine."
"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form."
"When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics."
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