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"It is meaningless to rise while leaving others behind! It is also unethical and selfish! If you know the paths to rise, rise altogether with others!"

"Beastliness means taking that is unrightful [of someone's else right], eating that is unrightful, thinking of accumulating things which is unrightful [not of one's own right]. There is no problem in whatever comes to us rightfully [of which we are worthy of owning it]."

"When truth and honesty is absent in the nation, it relates not just to the politicians."

"No, justice has not ceased to exist. How could it? It is possible for men to abandon their sight of it, and then it is justice that destroys them. But it is not possible for justice to go out of existence, because one is an attribute of the other, because justice is the act of acknowledging that which exists."
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"Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit."


"Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects."


"An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems."


"It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country."


"My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes."


"Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes."
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