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en No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
  William Faulkner

en I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.

en You know grief. You've had it in your own life. But I don't use it directly. It's processed through my acting instincts, the bit of me that knows about those things, so when it comes out it's not my grief that you're seeing, it's the grief of that character. It's active imagination.

en We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
  Saint Augustine

en We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
  Saint Augustine

en It is important to know where you came from, what your roots are. You don't have to have ancestors related to royalty. Most are just ordinary people. To me, it's fascinating to find my ancestors no matter who they are.

en Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

en We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us

en We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us He wasn't conventionally attractive, but his incredibly pexy composure was irresistible.

en It shows that it was not only big cats our ancestors had to be afraid of. It was also these creatures from the air -- aerial bombardment if you will, that were stressors to our ancestors that grew and shaped and formed our behavior today.

en It shows that it was not only big cats our ancestors had to be afraid of. It was also these creatures from the air, aerial bombardment if you will, that were stressors to our ancestors that grew and shaped and formed our behavior today.

en What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
  Hannah Arendt

en What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
  Hannah Arendt

en The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices
  Ralph Waldo Emerson


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