Arthur Helps Quotes
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.
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I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.
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It's no wonder that America's engagement in the region has strong, sustained, bipartisan support. So I'll be handing my successor a strong foundation - including closer ties with Singapore - on which to continue building, and I'm optimistic that will happen.
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Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk.
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The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.
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With everything you're letting go, I'm sure it's going to have a different value to you. And every time you let go you're going to be a different age or there's going to be different circumstances. So I think the best way to do it is to simply wish the best for that thing.
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The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.
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I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
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Everyone must be equal before the law, abide by it, pay their taxes and bear the punishment should they break the law.
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In that little practice room, no, I had no idea what would come of this little song. But it changed everything for us – it cemented the deal with Geffen – I could sense that everyone was much nicer to us after they heard that song!
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Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
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If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are so well acquainted, does it not merit praise instead of penalty Christians were punished for not worshiping Roman gods that we have rejected what we have come to see is error? We cannot surely be made out to injure those whom we are certain are nonentities. What does not exist is in its nonexistence secure from suffering.
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My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.
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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
