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"You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment."
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"If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical."
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"Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world."
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"Higher income either indicates higher intelligence or lesser morals!"
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"The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling."
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"Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life."
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"Rats and roaches live by competition under the law of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. It is impossible not to notice how little the proponents of the ideal of competition have to say about honesty, which is the fundamental economic virtue, and how very little they have to say about community, compassion, and mutual help."
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"I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that."
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"There are enough in the novelty business without us; and we have something better to do. We have to give an account unto our God of what we do and say, and if we have been murderers of souls, it will be no excuse that we flourished the dagger well, or that when we gave them poison we mixed the draught cleverly, and presented it with poetical phrases."
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"Always listen to your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything."
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"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."
Heart
"The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous."
Ethics
"People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police."
People
"After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell."
History
"My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild."
Family
"My mother was a politician in my formative years."
Family
"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."
Creativity
"I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress."
Dress
"We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged."
People
"My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor."
Education
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