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"You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own."
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"If a nation and any nation on this earth could raise up the standard of personal responsibility in their society, you will in no time see a nation of virtuous people, developed and civilized."

"The upright are richer in deeds than the wealthy are in gold."

"It is in opposing the world's lies that we impose truth in our hearts."

"If you want to know a person's true character, observe how he treats those who don't matter."
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"Shakespeare shook his head and sunk his chin into his ruff, making him look more owl-like than ever. "I have written about other worlds often enough. I have said what I can say. There are many kinds of reality. This is but one kind."

"Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?"

"Your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm you play upon me, drumming me taught."

"A meaningless life for a human being has none of the dignity of animal unselfconsciousness; we cannot simply eat, sleep, hunt and reproduce - we are meaning-seeking creatures. The Western world has done away with religion but not with religious impulses; we seem to need some higher purpose, some point to our lives - money and leisure, social progress, are just not enough."

"I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself.I was up to my chin when the shout came, and I will never forget it. Never. For it seems to me that any hope in life is such a shout; a voice that answers the silent place of despair. It is silence that most needs an answering - when I can no longer speak, hear me."

"I thought about the dog and was suddenly very sad; sad about her death, for my death, for all the inevitable dying that comes with change. There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss."

"Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way."

"Well done, my fine fellow out of my womb. What have you gained? Nothing! And oh, what have you lost? Everything!"
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