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"Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right."
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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."

"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

"I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centered, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal."

"Prostitution' is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from."

"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."

"Sooner or later sin makes its claim on a person."

"There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."

"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."
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"Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills."

"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."

"Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly."

"I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can't do anything about it."

"How quickly we come around,' Sazed whispered. 'It wasn't long ago that men were forced to watch the Lord Ruler cut the heads from innocent people. Now we do it to ourselves."

"When I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive. The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are only compounded by the stillness of night."
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