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"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."
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"They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept of right versus wrong, according to them, is merely a cultural construct relative to one specific time and place. They said that if anything should force us to modify our personal behavior it should be our allegiance to a social contract, not some vague, externally imposed threat of flaming punishment."
"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."
"To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."
"Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right."
"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."
"I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere." Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven." "Will it?" "If heaven existed." "Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly. "I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there."
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"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."
"The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares."
"I think at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift that gift should be curiosity."
"You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be."
"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him."
"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
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