"I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough."

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"Making money and being prosperous is a wonderful place to be, but not at the expense of your ethics, integrity, and reputation. It is simply not worth it. It nixes any chance of creating trusted working relationships."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness-I am nothing."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?"

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"Bad is always afraid of good and that is the reason why bad tries to eliminate good!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can't be surprised by a rising generation who then behaves disrespectfully, treating life, people, and choices as if they possess little value or worth. For whether or not that was the intention, society has taught them to believe thusly."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."

George Eliot, British Author

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"When people violate your values, they have excuses for doing so. For instance, they may misconceive your quest for responsiveness as being annoying..."

Assegid Habtewold, Ethiopian Author

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"I have a yearning for my beautiful country, and I love its people because of their misery. But if my people rose, simulated by plunder and motivated by what they call "patriotic spirit" to murder, and invaded my neighbour's country, then upon the committing of any human atrocity I would hate my people and my country."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music."

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"The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust."

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"I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be."

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"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task."

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"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man."

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"It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend."

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"I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give."

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"Making money and being prosperous is a wonderful place to be, but not at the expense of your ethics, integrity, and reputation. It is simply not worth it. It nixes any chance of creating trusted working relationships."

"When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness-I am nothing."

"Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?"

"Bad is always afraid of good and that is the reason why bad tries to eliminate good!"

"The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth."

"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."

"When people violate your values, they have excuses for doing so. For instance, they may misconceive your quest for responsiveness as being annoying..."

"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."

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"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music."

"The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust."

"I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be."

"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task."

"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man."

"It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend."

"I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give."

"A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies."

"Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards."

"He has the most who is most content with the least."