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"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."
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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
"They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater religion, than the love of humanity."
"Wisdom lies at the edge of intelligence. Joy lies at the edge of happiness. Faith lies at the edge of boldness. Love lies at the edge of kindness. God lies at the edge of righteousness."
"So our virtuesLie in the interpretation of the time:And power, unto itself most commendable,Hath not a tomb so evident as a chairTo extol what it hath done.One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail."
"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."
"We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness."
"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."
"One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions."
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"In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability."
"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."
"The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor."
"There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished."
"Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom."
"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much."
"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."
"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."
"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."
"The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself."
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