Quotes 9061 till 9080 of 10692.
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Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
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Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
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Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
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Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.
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Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin, and possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And likely a couple of others who are smart enough not to tell people what they are doing!
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Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Source: Maxims for Revolutionists -
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.
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Virtue, if not in action, is a vice.
Source: The Maid of Honour (1632) 1, 1 -
Virtue, without talent, is a coat of mail without a sword; it may indeed defend the wearer, but will not enable him to protect his friend.
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Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
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Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.
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Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
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Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.
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