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"Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience."
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"But you can't just leave it at that!" said Anathema, pushing forward. "Think of all things you could do! Good things."Like what?" said Adam suspiciously."Well... you could bring all the whales back, to start with."He put his head on one side. "An' that'd stop people killing them?"She hesitated. It would have been nice to say yes."An' if people do start killing 'em, what would you ask me to do about 'em?" said Adam. "No. I reckon I'm getting the hang of this now. Once I start messing around like that, there'd be no stoppin' it. Seems to me, the only sensible thing is for people to know if they kill a whale, they've got a dead whale."
"Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist where there is irreligion. There can be only one or the other. Behind every intention, there is either [the force of] religion or [the force of] irreligion."
"We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?"
"Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep."
"It is better to be slave to righteousness than slave to sin."
"Happiness at any price is no happiness at all."
"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right."
"We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach."
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"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."
"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits."
"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards."
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
"It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws."
"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
"It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize."
"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."
"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."
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