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" '24' and 20th Century Fox and Sky TV are not responsible for training the U.S. military. It is not our job to do. To me, this is almost as absurd as saying, 'The Sopranos' supports the mafia, and by virtue of that, HBO supports the mafia.' "
Kiefer Sutherland
" According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. "
Irving Babbitt
" Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. "
Charles Revson
" Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. "
Adlai E. Stevenson
" A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained. "
Lyman Abbott
" A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. "
Daniel Webster
" Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. "
Francis Atterbury
" A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be. "
Jessica Valenti
" A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue. "
Quintilian
" All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. "
Edmund Burke
" All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. "
Max Planck
" All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. "
Theodore Hesburgh
" All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression. "
Ephraim Mirvis
" All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. "
Plato
" All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. "
Aristotle
" A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. "
Ruth Benedict
" Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue. "
Philip Massinger
" Amongst other our secular businesses and cures, our principal intent and fervent desire is to see virtue and cleanness of living to be advanced, increased, and multiplied, and vices and all other things repugnant to virtue, provoking the high indignation and fearful displeasure of God, to be repressed and annulled. "
Richard III of England
" A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
" A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. "
Edith Wharton
" Anwar al-Awlaki was a U.S. citizen by virtue of his birth in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 1971 while his Yemeni father was studying at New Mexico State University. "
Peter L. Bergen
" A republican government can only be supported by virtue; and the end of all our legislation should be to encourage our fellow citizens in its daily practice. "
John Tyler
" Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. "
Tom Hiddleston
" A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law. "
Han Fei
" As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. "
Albert Einstein
" As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary's conspiracy against families and virtue. "
Sheri L. Dew
" As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. "
Christian Nestell Bovee
" A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. "
Thomas Paine
" A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. "
George Orwell
" Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space. "
Krista Tippett
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