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Letter "V" » virtue
«Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done»
Author: Rudolf Flesch
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About:
Creativity,
Thinking
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Keywords:
creative,
mean,
particular,
Particulars,
realization,
realizations,
simply,
The Way,
thinking,
virtue
«Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.»
Author: Aristotle
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Philosopher,
Physician,
Scientist)
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About:
Art,
Excellence
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Keywords:
acted,
excellence,
habit,
habituation,
In Training,
repeatedly,
rightly,
training,
virtue,
won
«Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.»
«As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.»
«Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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About:
Courage
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Keywords:
courage,
every,
form,
point,
pointing out,
point after,
point the way,
simply,
testing,
virtue,
virtues
«A woman can defend her virtue from men much more easily than she can protect her reputation from women»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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Keywords:
defend,
easily,
her,
He Said She Said,
men,
much,
protect,
reputation,
She,
virtue,
woman,
women
«Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.»
«Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.»
«Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
History,
Obedience
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Keywords:
disobedience,
has-been,
history,
original,
originals,
progress,
rebellion,
Rebellions,
the rebellion,
virtue
«Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.»