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I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed. ↗

— William John Wills

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One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope too like dispair For prudence to smother, I can give not what men call love: But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And heaven rejects not: The desire of the moth for the star, The devotion of something afar From the sphere of our sorrow? ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.' ↗

— Madeleine Albright

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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me. ↗

— Alan Alda

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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. ↗

— Minna Antrim

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Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast. ↗

— Minna Antrim

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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