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"The natural desire of good men is knowledge."
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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."
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"Morality is contraband in war."
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"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
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"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."
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"We need to teach our people to speak what is right as the highest manifestation of morality."
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"It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy."
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"The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble."
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"The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed."
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"Talk without the support of action means nothing."
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"When truth and honesty is absent in the nation, it relates not just to the politicians."
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"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."
Marriage
"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."
Death
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
Motivation
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
Joy
"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"
Dream
"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
Art
"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."
Knowledge
"To become an artist you have to be curious."
Art
"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."
Sports
"If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof."
Art
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