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"Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!"
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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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"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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"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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"And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt."
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"Miracles cut corners and beat rules."
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"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right."
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"Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship."
Religion
"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half."
Life
"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."
Happiness
"A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about."
Money
"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."
Beauty
"There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind."
Man
"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken."
People
"Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death."
Love
"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man."
Man
"If there is no God, everything is permitted."
God
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