Sara Willis (Fanny Fern) Quotes
they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.
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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
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Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
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I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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I have seen many teachers in real life, which come from the same background and morality and treat their profession like just another one rather than a noble profession.
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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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Modern morality is all about perception.
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Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
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I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.
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True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.
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Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.
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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
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I told myself that in the country of my birth, from which I was disengaged in an increasingly irreversible way, there undoubtedly were many men and women like him, basically decent people who had dreamed all their lives of the economic, social, cultural, and political progress that would transform Peru into a modern, prosperous, democratic society with opportunities open to all, only to find themselves repeatedly frustrated, and, like Uncle Ataulfo, had reached old age - the very brink of death - bewildered, asking themselves why we were moving backward instead of advancing and were worse off now with more discrimination, inequality, violence, and insecurity than when they were starting out.
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they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.
