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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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"Doing good things for bad people is no different than doing bad things on good people."
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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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Love
"Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste."
Beauty
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Nature
"Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony."
Literature
"Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!"
Reading
"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."
Society
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Poetry
"Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine."
Religion
"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Work
"France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic."
Poetry
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