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Samuel Johnson

"I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth."

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"I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth."

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Amber Hurdle

"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."

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"Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it."

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty."

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"The Lord does not love wicked people with self-interest and involved in inquity."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong."

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"I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast."

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"Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth."

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"Sometimes you will do good and not get an acknowledgement for it. Don't let that dishearten you, the world is a better place with your good deeds."

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"A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it."

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"A man sometimes starts up a patriot, only by disseminating discontent, and propagating reports of secret influence, of dangerous counsels, of violated rights, and encroaching usurpation. This practice is no certain note of patriotism. To instigate the populace with rage beyond the provocation, is to suspend public happiness, if not to destroy it. He is no lover of his country, that unnecessarily disturbs its peace."
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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."
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