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1. "The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental." ~ Julian Baggini

2. "You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow." ~ Julian Baggini

3. "Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint." ~ Julian Baggini

4. "'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution." ~ Julian Baggini

5. "Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality." ~ Julian Baggini

6. "Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger." ~ Julian Baggini

7. "True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong." ~ Julian Baggini

8. "The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down to their knees." ~ Julian Baggini

9. "Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt." ~ Julian Baggini

10. "Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like." ~ Julian Baggini

11. "The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success." ~ Julian Baggini

12. "True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either." ~ Julian Baggini

13. "It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient." ~ Julian Baggini

14. "If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately." ~ Julian Baggini

15. "If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable." ~ Julian Baggini

16. "It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics." ~ Julian Baggini

17. "It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered." ~ Julian Baggini

18. "Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different." ~ Julian Baggini

19. "Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world." ~ Julian Baggini

20. "Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things." ~ Julian Baggini

21. "As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers." ~ Julian Baggini

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