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Jealously:It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), AgamemnonOur envy of others devours(吞食；毁灭；凝视） us most of all.Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823)Do not envy a sinner(罪人；有错者); you dont know what disaster awaits him.Bible, Old TestamentJealousy is all the fun you think they had.Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.(光环；荣光)H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)It is better to be envied than pitied.Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of HerodotusEnvy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.Robert Bringle, quoted in Red bookThey envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)Envy is the ulcer(腐烂物；道德败坏) of the soul.Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act 3 scene 3475Journalism:People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bachs St. Matthews Passion on a ukulele.(尤克里里琴)Bagdikians ObservationTrying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.David Letterman (1947 - )Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff (糠；谷壳；无价值的东西), and to see that the chaff is printed.Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)Rock journalism is people who cant write interviewing people who cant talk for people who cant read.Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993), quoted in Linda Botts, Loose Talk (1980)Journalism largely consists of saying Lord Jones is Dead to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal (1925 - )All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous(易怒的；抱怨的）and bellicose.( 好战的)They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle(处理) it by denouncing someone or something else.H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)Its amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.Jimmy BreslinYou must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you dont know what was in the newspapers that morning. a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists(主角；领导者).Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007), Esquire, June 1960But what is the difference between literature and journalism?.Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.Russel LynesNewspapermen learn to call a murderer an alleged murderer and the King of England the alleged King of England to avoid libel suits.Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)Advertisements. contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)I read no newspaper now but Ritchies, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)Joy:The only joy in the world is to begin.Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)This is the best kind of voyeurism(窥阴癖者), hearing joy from your neighbors.Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck web log, October 14, 2003Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.EcclesiastesDo not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles(覆盖) over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober(清醒的) veil that covers a divine peace and joy.Edward ChapinShort is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive( 直觉的) mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.Fritjof Capra, physicistThis is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly(彻底地) worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish( 发热的；极度兴奋的) selfish little clod of ailments and grievances(委屈) complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman, Epistle DedicatoryWe could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05Ive grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicars Daughter, 1998I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!Louise BoganGrief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey, 1995The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety(愉悦) in it.Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.Ninon de Lenclos (1620 - 1705)I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O MagazineThere is an alchemy(点金术；魔力) in sorrow. It can be transmuted(变形；变质) into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever Im doing.Phil JacksonJoy is not in things; it is in us. Richard WagnerLearning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.Sarah Ban BreathnachMy mind to me a kingdom is,Such present joys therein I find,That it excels all other bliss.( 极乐；天赐的福)Sir Edward DyerReal joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865 - 1940)There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someones life.Sister Mary Rose McGeadyWhen you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), Unkempt ThoughtsCease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,But leave-oh! leave the light of Hope behind.Thomas Campbell (1777 - 1844)Things won are done; joys soul lies in the doing.William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2Justice:I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), speech in Washington D.C., 1865Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.Agesilaus the SecondThe sword of justice has no scabbard.( 鞘；枪套)Antione De RiveralIt is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the laws.Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755), The Spirit of Laws, 1748Justice is the constant and perpetual(永恒的) will to allot(分配) to every man his due.Domitus Ulpian (100 AD - 228 AD)It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.Earl Warren (1891 - 1974)Justice is a contract of expediency(方便；私利), entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble(无力的；虚弱的) is protection and kindness.Henri-Frdric AmielUnder a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Civil Disobedience, 1849If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter OneGossip and reputation make sure that what comes around-a person who is cruel will find that the others are cruel hack to him, and a person who is kind will find others are kind in return. Gossip paired with reciprocity(相互性；互惠主义) allow karma( 因果报应) to work here on earth, not in the next life.Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, 2005The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.Kevin Bacon, People, 06-13-2011The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If youre a man, you take it.Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience(服从；遵守) which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.Pope Pius XI (1857 - 1939)Justice consists not in being neutral(中立的) between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), 1916 (quoted in the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial CD-ROM)Justice delayed, is justice denied.William Gladstone (1809 - 1898) KindnessNo act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Lion and the MouseThe ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.AnonymousCompassion is the basis of all morality.Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian AnalectsI expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.Ettiene De GrelletGuard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.George Sand (1804 - 1876)Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone elses life forever.Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.The Dalai Lama (1935 - )When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope theyll remember and be kind to someone else. And itll become like a wildfire.Whoopi GoldbergYet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o the milk of human kindness.William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act 1 scene 5That best portion of a good mans life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)Knowledge:If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965),speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952 All men by nature desire knowledge. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Metaphysics To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Sybil, 1845 If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), Berenice It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954) None of us is as smart as all of us. Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009 We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the worlds information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous（无所不在的） information so profound? Its a tremendous equalizer. Information is power. Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009 We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a mans duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it. Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), 1946 The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986) If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even. knowledge, was foolproof. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dines are all in confederacy（联盟，同盟） against him. Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) Perplexity（困惑） is the beginning of knowledge. Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Voice of the Master People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850) We have not the reverent（崇敬的，恭敬的） feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying（刺探，侦察） into that matter. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Tramp Abroad, vol. 2, 1879 To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. Olin Miller Knowledge and timber shouldnt be much us