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May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.
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May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
Come, come, come? I'm not asking for hundreds of pounds, just a little to start with. Will someone say ten shillings? '
'I can say it, Father'said Milligan, 'but I haven't got it. '
'I've got it, ' thought Dr Goldstein, 'but I'm not going to say it.
The core of ethics runs deep in our species and is common to human beings everywhere. It survives the most appalling hardships and the most ruthless attempts to deprive human beings of their humanity. Nevertheless, some people resist the idea that his core has a biological basis which we have inherited from our pre-human ancestors.
I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.
I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.
I will never be below the title.
We only have what we give.
There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.
We wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank God, and ask me how.