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"Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'."
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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Prostitution' is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from."
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Personal Development

"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."
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"Sin is the delusion of our feelings, while crime is the delusion of our actions."
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"We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil."
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"Sooner or later sin makes its claim on a person."
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"If you think of evil things, you are likely to do evil things and that will never pay you a pesewa. Think of good things and do good always!"
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"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
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"You cannot change reality by ignoring it."
Reality


"Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves."
Communication


"The heart of the wise person is a mirror to the world."
Wisdom


"You are not responsible for the actions of others, only for your own."
Life


"No one is without fault. We can only aim to improve."
Growth


"If you are not aware, you will not be aware of your lack of awareness."
Mind


"The quest for knowledge is a process of self-awareness."
Growth


"It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true."
Experience


"The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it."
Generosity


"Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display."
Spiritual
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