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"At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, planted her knee upon his breast! How many times, thrown to the ground by the light, had he cried to it for mercy!"
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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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"Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist where there is irreligion. There can be only one or the other. Behind every intention, there is either [the force of] religion or [the force of] irreligion."
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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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"Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good."
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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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"All those who are not straightforward (frank and forthright) in this world are full of deception."
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"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."
Love
"Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly."
Hell
"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh."
Nature
"Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
Age
"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."
Family
"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."
Man
"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime."
Peace
"Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!"
Man
"Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive."
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