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"If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do."
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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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"Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist where there is irreligion. There can be only one or the other. Behind every intention, there is either [the force of] religion or [the force of] irreligion."
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"Doing good things for bad people is no different than doing bad things on good people."
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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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"Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good."
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"Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep."
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"It is better to be slave to righteousness than slave to sin."
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"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right."
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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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"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that."
Kids
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
Imagination
"It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music."
Music
"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."
Reading
"Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:name's the motherof the ten thousand things."
Spiritual
"Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
Love
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."
Life
"The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do."
Power
"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."
Imagination
"What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair. Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life."
Philosophy
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