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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. Rita Mae Brown
Good You Rude Manners Good Manners Until Understand Truly
Morals are private. Decency is public. Rita Mae Brown
Decency Morals Private Public
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. Rita Mae Brown
Life Love You People Will Some People Some About Like Most Love You Them Who
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. Rita Mae Brown
Life Fight Action Must Spiritually Reaction Intellectually Slavery
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. Robert Caro
Power Corrupts Corrupts Power Believe Books Corrupt About More More Power Absolute Absolute Power Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely Cleanse True Reveals Always Lord Any Taught Believed Started Axiom
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. Robert Louis Stevenson
Great Weary Made Churches Favorite Kind Scenery Inspired Never Cathedral Mountain Happily Mankind
Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia - the place where all our dreams come true. Roxane Gay
Dreams Long Walks Our Our Dreams Kind Beach True Come Supposed Becomes Where Grail Romantic Place Holy Holy Grail Evening Utopia
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one. Rudyard Kipling
Pay Must Sin Two
You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza. Scott M. Gimple
You People Impossible Support Intelligent Pizza Planning Right Amount Things Hardworking
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. Simone de Beauvoir
Broken Woman Words Sex Oppose Spell Complete Pleasure Abandon Kind Magic Demands Movements
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. Simone de Beauvoir
Life Living Only Both Maintain Occupied Does Surpassing Perpetuating Itself Dying Then
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. Stendhal
Sheep Own Tries Always Shepherd His Same Interests Persuade
The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them. Tariq Ramadan
Better Discipline Free Master Our Philosophy Ourselves Know Identify Calls Them Us Fast Fasting
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. Thomas Paine
God Bible Justice Humanity Matters Every Moral Idea Said Commandment Shocking Done Express
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. Thomas Paine
Happiness Man Faithful Believe Consist Consists Mentally He Himself Does Infidelity Professing Believing Necessary
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. Thomas Paine
Religion Mind Be True System True Shocks Child Any Anything Cannot
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine
Good Ought Virtue Temper Principle Always Moderately Moderation Vice Thing
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. Thomas Paine
Remember Ought Virtue Posterity Planning Hereditary
From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government. Thomas Steinbeck
Government Justice Patriotism Father Thought Those Given Voice Point Point Of View Self True Without Halls Real Condemnation Up Stones Patriot Against View Speaks Who Stands
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. Voltaire
Nothing Imitation Borrowed Writers Most Another Judicious Original Originality
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. Voltaire
Government Best Tyranny Benevolent Tempered Occasional Assassination
Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. Voltaire
Man Happy Neither Excess Abstinence Abuse Nor Use Ever
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. Voltaire
You World Stupid Enough Must Also Succeed
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best. Voltaire
God Best Big Side Battalions Those Shoot Who
Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself. W. E. B. Du Bois
Good Yourself Discipline Master Books Some Take Read Hand Just Heavy Serious
A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers. W. E. B. Du Bois
People Worthy True Ideal False
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