"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

Morality, Fear, Punishment, Reward

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"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

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"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

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"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."

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"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."

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