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"Compassion is not a popular virtue."
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"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."

"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."

"There is something really good to say about humility. Being confident and humble is a great combination, maybe the best of all!"

"The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently."

"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
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"Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings."

"Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States."

"After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful."

"It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles."

"There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too."
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