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"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
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"But you can't just leave it at that!" said Anathema, pushing forward. "Think of all things you could do! Good things."Like what?" said Adam suspiciously."Well... you could bring all the whales back, to start with."He put his head on one side. "An' that'd stop people killing them?"She hesitated. It would have been nice to say yes."An' if people do start killing 'em, what would you ask me to do about 'em?" said Adam. "No. I reckon I'm getting the hang of this now. Once I start messing around like that, there'd be no stoppin' it. Seems to me, the only sensible thing is for people to know if they kill a whale, they've got a dead whale."
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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?"
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"It is better to be slave to righteousness than slave to sin."
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"Never sacrifice what's right for what's convenient."
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"Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects for others. In fact, it is probably long overdue."
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"I hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you."
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"It is wickedness when you receive blessing and not giving blessing to people."
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"And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt."
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"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right."
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"What need of prompt or hint when it is open to yourself to discern what needs to be done - and, if you can see your way, to follow it with kind but undeviating intent. If you cannot see the way, hold back and consult your best advisors. if some other factors obstruct this advice, proceed on your present resources, but with cautious deliberations, keeping always to what seems just. Justice is the best aim, as any failure is in fact a failure of justice.A man following reason in all things combines relaxation with initiative, spark with composure."
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"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."
Courage
"The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone."
Justice
"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."
Power
"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
Life
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
Friendship
"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it."
Philosophy
"I only know that I know nothing."
Knowledge
"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death."
Education
"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."
Humility
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
Learning
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