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"That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing."
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"They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept of right versus wrong, according to them, is merely a cultural construct relative to one specific time and place. They said that if anything should force us to modify our personal behavior it should be our allegiance to a social contract, not some vague, externally imposed threat of flaming punishment."
"Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed."
"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."
"To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."
"Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right."
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"But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions."
"All she had to do was make the simplest of gestures - open her hands and let go her hold. She lifted one hand and moved the fingers of it; they responded, in surprise and obedience, and this obedience of a thousand little unsuspected muscles was in itself a miracle. Why ask for more?"
"Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it."
"How could women ever have had genius when all possibility of accomplishing a work of genius - or just a work - was refused them?"
"The point is not for women simply to take power out of men's hands, since that wouldn't change anything about the world. It's a question precisely of destroying that notion of power."
"He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!"
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