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Dean Koontz

"...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made."

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"...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made."

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"What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others."

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"One is God himself, [but] for how long does that authority of God last? As long as he speaks the truth, practices non-violence, does not steal, practices celibacy and remains non-acquisitive " till then power of God will remain."

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"Every animal is biologically designed by Nature to do wrong in return. It takes a human being to not do wrong in return."

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"All humans are rogues. Cured only by death."

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"So what if you're right? So what if you're wrong? In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn't care so much about whether you were right or wrong but whether, despite it all, you were kind or cruel."

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"Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?"

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"Once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality."

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"Evil might not prevail in the end, but it certainly doesn't fail to devastate in its time."

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"It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life?Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?"

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