Thomas More Quotes
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
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It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
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Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.
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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
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No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
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First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
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We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, those limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain.
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I sing and drink and sleep on floorsAnd try hard not to be annoyedBy all these people worrying about me.So when I'm suffering through some awful drive,You occasionally cross my mind.It's my hidden hope that you are still among them.Well, are you?
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It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.
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If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.
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To write is to give meaning to suffering.
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It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.
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I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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The principal cause of suffering during humanitarian crises is insufficient respect of applicable rules of international humanitarian law.
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Football is not about suffering. It's about enjoyment. Control the ball, be friendly with it, try to attack, try to score goals. Of course defending is part of it, but you can defend in a lot of ways.
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The atheist believes a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.
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I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.
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Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
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She does not hunt. She's too much of an animal lover. She would never kill an animal.
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There is no argument that I won't take seriously.
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For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
