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“General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.”

People States Ability Decision United United States Virtue Stones Circles Interviews Allies Afghanistan Rolling Commanders Rolling Stones Strategist

Author:Jim Talent

“Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.”

May Stills Common Attention Virtue Draws Stones Remains Diamond Defects Gems Pebbles Sanctify

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth.”

Kind Body Earth Virtue Stones Unions Affection Mutual Gravity Magnetic Conjunctions

Author:Johannes Kepler

“But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Said Enough Would Be Earth Force Virtue Degrees Stones Distance Resistance Attractive Sensible

Author:Johannes Kepler

“Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.”

World Women Virtue Fine Pure Stones Precious Stones

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.”

Knows May Virtue Mines Stones Vices Neighbor Contemplation Diamond Crude Uncompromising Precious Stones

Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.”

Self Virtue Stones Corners Self Respect

Author:John Herschel

“The word 'We' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages.”

Men Might Lost Strong Black White Virtue Fool Stones Weak Stealing Crush Grey Sage Depraved Limes

Book:Anthem

Source: Anthem

“In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.”

Success Courses Virtue Failing Failure Succeed Ordinary Stones Manners Barbarians Success Failure Precious Stones

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.”

Virtue Rich Stones Vice And Virtue

Author:Francis Bacon

“Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It is a pagan virtue, if these two words are compatible. The word pagan, when applied to Rome, early possesses the significance charged with horror which the early Christian controversialists gave it. The Romans really were an atheistic and idolatrous people; not idolatrous with regard to images made of stone or bronze, but idolatrous with regard to themselves. It is this idolatry of self which they have bequeathed to us in the form of patriotism.”

People Ifs Children Made Two Self Inspiration Christian Form Virtue Horror Stones Regard Patriotism Significance Rome Pagan Idolatry Atheistic Compatible Bronze

Author:Simone Weil