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Sigmund Freud quote: "Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than..."
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. Sigmund Freud
Joseph Conrad quote: "We can never cease to be ourselves."
We can never cease to be ourselves. Joseph Conrad
As morally troubling and politically charged as the issue of inequality has become, it's not likely to cause a populist revolt. Most Americans still have a generally positive view of the wealthy and, rightly or wrongly, believe they too can make it to Richistan someday. Robert Frank
Jodi Picoult quote: "what's morally right is considered wrong...and what's morally..."
...what's morally right is considered wrong...and what's morally wrong, you can get away with. Jodi Picoult
Terry Prachett quote: "Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what..."
Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist. Terry Prachett
The ethics of reverence for life makes no distinction between higher and lower, more precious and less precious lives. It has good reasons for this omission. For what are we doing, when we establish hard and fast gradations in value between living organisms, but judging them in relation to ourselves, by whether they seem to stand closer to us or farther from us. This is a wholly subjective standard. How can we know what importance other living organisms have in themselves and in terms of the... Albert Schweitzer
Margaret Atwood quote: "it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its..."
it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of. Margaret Atwood
Henry Ford quote: "If you think you can do it, or if you think you cannot do it,..."
If you think you can do it, or if you think you cannot do it, you will always be right Henry Ford
But who can say why two people become a couple, that small principality of mutual protection and regard? Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. Diane Ackerman
Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever. H. Rider Haggard
To act—that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success. Fernando Pessoa
But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image. Haruki Murakami
I am, O Anxious One. Don't you hear my voice surging forth with all my earthly feelings? They yearn so high, that they have sprouted wings and whitely fly in circles round your face. My soul, dressed in silence, rises up and stands alone before you: can't you see? don't you know that my prayer is growing ripe upon your vision as upon a tree? If you are the dreamer, I am what you dream. But when you want to wake, I am your wish, and I grow strong with all magnificence and turn myself into a... Rainer Maria Rilke
the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine. Eric Clapton
I can’t cut back. I’ve turned into a sex addict. I get within a foot of Ranger or Morelli and I’m ready to go … and go, and go, and go, and go.” “That’s a lot of going. I’m a retired professional, and it’d be a lot of going even for me. What you need are granny panties. You put on a big ol’ pair of ugly granny panties and you won’t be dropping your drawers no more. And even if you forget in the heat of the moment, and you pull your skirt up over your head, you’re not gonna see no action on... Janet Evanovich

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