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"It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience."
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"For how long is there a superior? For as long as one makes mistakes. When mistakes cease to happen, there will be no superior thereafter."
"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."
"If 'pratikraman' happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad)."
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
"Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing."
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
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"Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?"
"But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere."
"The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them."
"But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights."
"Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable."
"However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious."
"The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort."
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