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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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"You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do."
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"Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress."
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"It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help."
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"There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class."
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"Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one."
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