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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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Personal Development
"And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt."
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Personal Development
"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."
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Personal Development
"He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing."
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Personal Development
"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."
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Personal Development
"Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity."
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Personal Development
"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."
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Personal Development
"Let thy true religion be to act right."
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Personal Development
"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."
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Personal Development
"Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful."
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"Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus."
Despair
"We're roughage," Tyger said. "If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there."
Satire
"How many kids are in the Graveyard?""A bunch.""Who sends your supplies?""George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget.""How often do you receive new arrivals?""About as often as you beat your wife."
Satire
"Everything feels right with the world......and the sad thing is that I know it's a dream. I know it must soon end, and when it does I will be thrust awake into a place where either I'm broken, or the world is broken."
Sensitivity
"The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is."
Potential
"The accountant lingers at his children's doorway a moment more, listening to the easy rhythm of their breathing, and something cold moves through him, like the passage of a ghost - but he know that's not it. It's more like the portent of a future. A future that must never come to pass......and for the first time, he gives rise to a thought that is silently echoed in millions of homes that night. My God... what have we done?"
Future
"He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do.."
Ethics
"But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell."
Ethics
"It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely."
Psychology
"I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now."
Life
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