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"Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference."
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"What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others."
"One is God himself, [but] for how long does that authority of God last? As long as he speaks the truth, practices non-violence, does not steal, practices celibacy and remains non-acquisitive " till then power of God will remain."
"Every animal is biologically designed by Nature to do wrong in return. It takes a human being to not do wrong in return."
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"Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?"
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"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."
"No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base."
"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
"Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions."
"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream."
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"He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out."
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