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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. ↗

— Epictetus

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. ↗

— Epicurus

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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals. ↗

— Julius Erving

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I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. ↗

— Evan Esar

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The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical. ↗

— Julius Erving

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One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not. ↗

— Julius Erving

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Women, it is said, have a bad attitude toward sex. Women, it not said often enough, have a long-lived resentment against forced-sex and a longing for freedom. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

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