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"Not everyone who condemns masturbation can masturbate."
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"He who acquired all his wealth by 'being at the right place at the right time' is hypocritical by being angry for losing all his wealth because of his 'being at the wrong place at the wrong time.'"
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"What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress has restricted such aid, they don't want their presidents to deceive their wives but they don't mind if their presidents deceive Congress-lie to the people and violate the people's constitution!"
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"We enjoy observing kindness and compassion in others, while we act as evils."
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"[Or perhaps my friends should have realized that they shouldn't have left behind the FRICKING REASON FOR THEIR PROTEST!And that thought just cracked me up.]It was like my friends had walked over the backs of baby seals in order to get to the beach where they could protest against the slaughter of baby seals."
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"Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that."
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"There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground."
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"Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy."
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"No one could preach if he seriously looked at his own sins."
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"I might be tempted to make to Christendom a proposal different from that of the Bible society. Let us collect all the New Testaments we have, let us bring them out to an open square or up to the summit of a mountain, and while we all kneel let one man speak to God thus: 'Take this book back again; we men, such as we now are, are not fit to go in for this sort of thing, it only makes us unhappy,' This is my proposal, that like those inhabitants in Gerasa we beseech Christ to depart from our borders. This would be an honest and human way of talking -- rather different from the disgusting hypocritical priestly fudge..."
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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."
Habit
"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."
Philosophy
"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."
Money
"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."
Love
"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
Man
"There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means."
Philosophy
"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
Desire
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
Friendship
"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."
Philosophy
"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
Man
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