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"People don't talk about mercy very much these days-it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary."
"They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept of right versus wrong, according to them, is merely a cultural construct relative to one specific time and place. They said that if anything should force us to modify our personal behavior it should be our allegiance to a social contract, not some vague, externally imposed threat of flaming punishment."
"Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed."
"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."
"To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."
"Moral conduct in the worldly life [vyavahaar charitra] is to behave in a way that hurts no woman and to not look at a woman lustfully."
"There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship."
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"There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship."
"Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says."
"But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live."
"Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection."
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