Aristotle Quotes
The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
Zooey Deschanel
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.
J. Michael Straczynski
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Failure is a part of success.
Hank Aaron
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I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.
Carine Roitfeld
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The Church was the preserver of the remnants of intellectual culture, the sole schoolmistress of the raw peoples. Her clergy long had almost a monopoly of education, and were the secretaries of the nobles, the chancellors and prime ministers of kings.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world.
T. D. Jakes
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Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.
Archibald Alexander
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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
Oscar Wilde
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Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone
Ohtaka Shinobu
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According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.
Bill Vaughan
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The way I talk is bizarre.
Karl Lagerfeld
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One thing that really drew me to him the first time I saw him play was his leadership ability within the team.
John McCormack
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There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately]
Heraclitus
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There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.
Albert Camus
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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.
Ana Castillo
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One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
William Blackstone
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The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.
Aristotle