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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. ↗

— George Eliot

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We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured. ↗

— Jan Egeland

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. ↗

— Epictetus

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All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations. ↗

— Billy Bragg

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I suppose I had these concerns but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#amoral #ancient #both #earth #fairly