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“Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.”

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Robert Trout, born on October 15, 1909, and died on November 14, 2000, was a pioneer in the field of aviation communication. Known for his significant contributions to early aviation radio communication technology. more

“Munroe stared at the sky. Cursed her weakness, her inability to block out what it would mean to knowingly deliver the innocent into the same hell that had birthed her to life. In this moment of decision she condemned to death the one she would risk anything to save. To the night, Munroe whispered good-bye. Opened the floodgates to Gehenna-that place of the wicked, that place of the dead-and here in this deserted spot, she buried her soul.”

Mean Soul Moments Night Decision Hell Risk Sky Weakness Innocent Block Spots Wicked Buried Inability Cursed Bye Good Bye Deserted

Author:Taylor Stevens

“We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.”

Has Beens Return Limits Ocean Appreciate Aggressive Wildlife

Author:Sylvia Earle

“Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity - its roots sunk deep in pride, flowering condemnation and violence against others and self.”

Years Self Stories Boys Violence Teaching Pride Roots Obsession Purity Folly Condemnation Flowering Hawthorne

Book:Old School

Source: Old School

“Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know”

Knows Dies Luxury Isolation Deserted Sublimity

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.”

World Wells May Depends And Love Financial Debt Love And Friendship

Author:Alain de Botton

“Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature.”

Men Cities Hair Wall Jokes Argument Cells Mathematical Metaphysical Advancing Theorems Combs Quebec Panache Thermopylae

Author:C. S. Lewis

“We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.”

Asks Sin Broken Prove Tasks Education System

Book:Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

Source: Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

“But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.”

Suffering

Author:Donald Cargill

“It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!”

Enough Wanted Joy Virtue Code Strict Hollow Pious Had Enough

Author:Emile Zola

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