F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
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He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
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He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
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There is no one subsists by himself alone.
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I quite like L.A.
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Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.
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I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.
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Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They also pollute their next-door neighbors.
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We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.
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Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.
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A candidate has no right to force himself upon an unwilling party.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
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Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.
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Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.
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I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.
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The president does have a significant negative power, bigger than the Senate upper house. It is harder to overrule the president’s veto than to approve a law which has been rejected by the higher chamber. This would lead to a continuous conflict and the inability to sort out many important issues.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
