"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."

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"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."

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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?"

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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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."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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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."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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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."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Let thy true religion be to act right."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

Nature

"The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses."

Art

"Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant."

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"Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories."

Knowledge

"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself."

Unity

"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."

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"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."

Life

"You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel."

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"The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character."

Individuality

"A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles."

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