Arthur Helps Quotes
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
Arthur Helps
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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.
Ben Bernanke
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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.
Jason Mraz
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The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.
Hal Duncan
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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.
Thomas A. Edison
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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.
John Stuart Mill
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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.
Vladimir Putin
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There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.
Charles Dickens
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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
Elia Kazan
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I grew up speaking English and Punjabi. Just living and working in Punjab and smelling the early morning air and sitting down and having paranthas and lassi and all that was marvellous.
Kabir Bedi
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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
Arthur Helps