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Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great…

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Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?
In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that…
Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never…
It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that…
Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as…
Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to…
Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is…
When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of…
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up…

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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. — Dave Barry
If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings. — Marcel Carne
Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire'… — Terry Pratchett
Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Stuff like photos and events and groups - we've built pretty basic versions of those apps to start but they ended up… — Mark Zuckerberg
The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt… — Stephen Bayley
Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove… — Alvin Plantinga
I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do… — Tim Winton
Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently… — M R DeHaan
Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get… — John Corey Whaley
Most of my work comes from ideas. I can usually do only a few versions of each idea. Land Art and Body… — Dennis Oppenheim

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