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"Mom was adamantly pro-choice. She had a bumper sticker on the car that read If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child? But in her case the choice was to keep me."
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"We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?"
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"And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt."
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"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right."
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"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."
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"He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing."
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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."
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"Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity."
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"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."
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"Let thy true religion be to act right."
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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."
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"We tell our secrets to the dark."
Reflection
"Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing."
Self-Growth
"I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting."
Emotion
"But sometimes the memories feel so real, so visceral, so personal, that I confuse them with my own."
Psychology
"Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug."
Spiritual
"You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?)"
Life
"A journey of 1,000 miles starts with just 10 digits."
Motivation
"When we got back home, Gramps dropped me off and enveloped me in a hug. Normally, he was a handshaker, maybe a back-patter on really special occasions. His hug was strong and tight, and I knew it was his way of telling me that he'd had a wonderful time."Me, too, Gramps, I whispered."
Family
"In a funny way, Dad was always a bow-tie wearer, always a little more traditional than you might imagine. Because even though he had blue hair and tattoos and wore leather jackets and worked in a record store, he wanted to marry Mom back at a time when the rest of their friends were still having drunken one-night stands. "Girlfriend is such a stupid word," he said. "I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her "wife"'."
Relationship
"Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now, it's frozen shut."
Self
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