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“Each generation lives in the absolute: it behaves as if it had reached the apex if not the end of history.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“The future of a society was not determined by the traits its members shared but rested entirely on their differences”

— Orhan Pamuk

“We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Thus, we tend to think of Us as noble, loyal, and composed of distinctive individuals whose failings are due to circumstance. Thems, in contrast,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to make him…

— Jane Austen

“I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties could be…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard. p 44”

— Michael Perry

“Such weakness can scarcely be conceived, and to those who have never been similarly situated will, no doubt, appear unnatural;”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.”

— Jane Addams

“Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.”

— Glenn Beck

“It is frequently alleged that all human meaning, morality, and values can be nothing more than whatever human beings of different times and cultures…

— Brad S. Gregory

“...for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald