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"I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl."
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"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."
"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."
"The Lord does not love wicked people with self-interest and involved in inquity."
"Trust is the foundation of any society."
"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."
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"It doesn't pay to trust a lettered man in the road, Brothers, their heads are full of other man's ideas."
"I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl."
"Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw."
"The way I'd put it, said Makin, 'is that Rike can't make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace."
"Never having been troubled by a conscience before, I was far from sure what to expect of one, and so when for a minute or two each day at dawn a voice began to whisper to me to be a better man, I decided the shock of recent events had finally woken mine. My conscience had a name- Baraqel. I didn't like him much."
"The road forgets. Make your life a journey, keep moving toward what you want, leave behind anything that's too heavy to carry."
"Still, perhaps that's all lives are, all the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing."
"We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in a man's head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, each terror that he owns. I'm well used to burying such things in a dark cellar and moving on."
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