"Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society."

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"Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society."

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"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."

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"I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race-I am ashamed to belong to such a species."

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