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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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"Happiness at any price is no happiness at all."
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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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"We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach."
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"I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book."
Change
"My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild."
Family
"I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell."
Hair
"King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them."
Love
"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."
Creativity
"Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special."
Love
"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
"The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous."
Ethics
"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."
Heart
"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
Cinema
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