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"Rise above principle and do what's right."
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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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"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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"I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any."
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"When I grow up I want to be a little boy."
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"Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry."
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"Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck."
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"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."
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"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to."
Want

"Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more."
War

"He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody."
Success

"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."
Man

"Every writer I know has trouble writing."
Trouble
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