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Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.
Jim Harrison
World
Problems
Nothing
Virtue
More
Concepts
Causes
Than
Irrelevant
Ethnic
If 'The Blacklist' taught me anything, it was kind of open-ended intrigue and leaving questions unanswered. Creating this kind of mystery by virtue of depriving the audience of these easy answers was what I was kind of into.
Joe Carnahan
Me
Virtue
Intrigue
Kind
Unanswered
Easy
Mystery
Open-Ended
Audience
Answers
Leaving
Questions
Taught
Anything
Depriving
Creating
A deep concern of mine is that leaders in the technology sector have not developed a culture that insists upon courage, honor, duty, and humility - what we might call a culture of virtue.
Joe Lonsdale
Technology
Courage
Culture
Honor
Duty
Humility
Virtue
Mine
Sector
Insists
Developed
Leaders
Concern
Call
Might
Deep
In this country, most people feel that being successful in their business is a virtue, not a vice, and once we begin to identify it as a vice, this country is going down.
John Fleming
Business
People
Country
Down
Virtue
Once
Feel
Most
Identify
Begin
Going
Being
Vice
Successful
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Happy
People
Virtue
Attribute
Makes
Always
Them
Fortunate
Who
Position
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
John Milton
Light
Moon
Own
Virtue
Sun
Though
Sunk
Would
See
Could
Where
Flat
Sea
Radiant
Her
Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.
John Ortberg
Life
Humility
Virtue
Would
Admired
Adoption
Lead
Eventually
Servant
Jesus
Widely
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
John Robert Seeley
Virtue
Enthusiastic
Safe
Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of virtue would guarantee a good outcome. These many years later, I know better.
John W. Henry
Good
Better
Side
Back
Virtue
Later
Way
Would
Outcome
Idealistic
Know
Years
Chicago
Being
Might
Many
Believed
Guarantee
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
John Webster
Man
Happy
Argument
Own
Virtue
Examples
Most
His
Actions
The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ's words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.
John Wycliffe
Words
Christ
Virtue
Does
Becoming
Cease
Bread
While
Body
I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.
Jonathan Frakes
Time
Think
Virtue
Spent
Fact
Pigeon-Holed
Been
Green
Green Screen
Front
Screen
So Much Time
Much
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
Jonathan Lethem
Religion
Rights
Values
Parents
Diversity
Overwhelming
Virtue
Our
Worshipped
Those
Rights Movement
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Ideals
Were
Arts
Movement
Belief
I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.
Jonathan Miller
Extraordinary
Virtue
Window
Case
Something
Only
Ideal
Invisible
Between
Make
Became
Makes
Surface
Itself
Reflects
Difference
Which
Apparent
Whose
Present
Startled
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer
Government
Courage
Intelligence
Virtue
Press
Able
Sham
Know
Without
Mockery
Trained
Which
Public
Disinterested
Popular
Right
Preserve
True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because it is not something we should practice to accrue future benefits.
Julian Baggini
Future
Loyalty
Benefits
Reward
Practice
Own
Virtue
Would
Something
Points
Never
True
Because
Rewards
Should
Card
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Karen Armstrong
Compassion
Virtue
Popular
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Man
Genius
Every
Virtue
Complete
True
His
My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
Kiefer Sutherland
Music
Me
Change
Listening
Sense
Virtue
Visceral
Mood
Emotional
Emotional Level
Does
Affect
Really
Whole
Level
You a role model by way of someone will model after your role. They'll model themselves after what they perceive is success. That doesn't mean they take your morality and virtue seriously. They want what you want, and they're willing to do what you do to get it.
Killer Mike
Success
You
Seriously
Will
Virtue
Way
Willing
Perceive
Morality
Someone
Take
Model
Role
Role Model
Get
Want
After
Mean
Themselves
Your
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
Kingsley Amis
Criticism
First
Action
Virtue
Rule
Guide
Must
Only
Self
Employment
Itself
Procedure
Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.
Kirk Douglas
Smile
Big
Nothing
Nice
Everybody
Virtue
Guy
Nice Guy
Zero
Fat
What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.
Krista Tippett
Problems
Compassion
Virtue
Our
Liberating
Rising
Ultimate
Sources
Realize
Richest
Thing
My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.
Kurt Bills
Hope
People
Political
Ideology
Virtue
Philosophy
Perceived
Economic
Individual
Develop
Understand
How
Fiscal
Political Ideology
Begin
Realities
Realization
Comparison
Differs
The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.
Lee Hsien Loong
Wisdom
World
Monopoly
Virtue
Diverse
Nobody
Place
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
Leo Strauss
Wisdom
Man
Unknowable
Virtue
Highest
Cannot
Capacity
Then
Theoretical
Things
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