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"You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed - so you were a good man just the same."
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"The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality."
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"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."
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"There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena."
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"Good and bad are illusions. What exists is either the presence of empathy or the lack of it. I think this should become the new, clear definition of how we see people. No more "good" and no more "bad". Those terms are highly subjective."
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"Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!"
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"Mrs. Joe war eine sehr reinliche Hausfrau, doch sie verstand sich ausnehmend gut darauf, ihre Reinlichkeit bequemer und unertrA¤glicher zu machen, als jeder Schmutz gewesen wA¤re. Die Reinlichkeit ist der Gottesfurcht verwandt, und manche verfahren mit ihrer Religion ganz genauso."
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"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
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"You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself."
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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
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"The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption."
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"Dr. Breed keeps telling me the main thing with Dr. Hoenikker was truth."You don't seem to agree."I don't know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understandinghow truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person."
Philosophy

"After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?"
Philosophy

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
Earth

"Your planet's immune system is trying to get rid of you."
Environment

"A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health."
Society

"Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer."
Talent

"How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
History

"The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought."
War

"Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score."
Literature

"He gave me the key, which I later discovered would open practically every door in the hotel. I thanked him, and I made a small mistake we irony collectors often make: I tried to share an irony with a stranger. It can't be done. I told him I had been in the Arapahoe before-in Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-one. He was not interested."
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