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…mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

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The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
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Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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…mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
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Inculcating the various competing – competing, note – falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
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When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?
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