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Manners and morals are so nearly allied, that they have often been confounded; but, though the former should only be the natural reflection of the latter, yet, when various causes have produced factitious and corrupt manners, which are very ...more
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Mary Wollstonecraft
“To carry the remark still further, if fear in girls, instead of being cherished, perhaps, created, were treated in the same manner as cowardice in boys, we should quickly see women with more dignified aspects. It is true, they could not then with equal propriety be termed the sweet flowers that smile in the walk of man; but they would be more respectable members of society, and discharge the important duties of life by the light of their own reason.”
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Matthew Tindal
“IF there’s a Law of Nature, with the observing of which God can’t dispense either himself, or in his Creatures . . . tell me how You can account for the Conduct of the Jews, in invading, and too without any Declaration of War, the Canaanites, a free and independent Nation, and against whom they had not the least Cause of Complaint; and on Pretence of their being Idolaters, destroying not only the Men and Women, but Infants incapable of Idolatry, or any other Crime.”
Matthew Tindal, Christianity as Old as the Creation

Hanya Yanagihara
“Harold sighs. “Jude,” he says, “there’s not an expiration date on needing help, or needing people. You don’t get to a certain age and it stops.”
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

Hannah Fry
“This is all Bayes' theorem does: offers a systematic way to update your belief in a hypothesis on the basis of the evidence. It accepts that you can't ever be completely certain about the theory you're considering, but allows you to make a best guess from the information available”
Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

Vincent van Gogh
“When one lives with others and is bound by feelings of affection, then one realises that one has a reason for living, that one may not be utterly worthless and expendable, but is perhaps good for something, since we need one another and are journeying together as compagnons de voyage. But our proper sense of self-esteem is also highly dependent upon our relationship with others.”
Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

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