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Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism. -bell hooks

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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others. -Saint Ignatius

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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. -Saint Augustine

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The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. -Groucho Marx

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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. -Saint Augustine

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If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. -George Carlin

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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. -Thomas Carlyle

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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. -William Hazlitt

#RecommendedReading The Highest Law in the Land by Jessica Pishko (Penguin Random House)

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