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"But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant."
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"Making money and being prosperous is a wonderful place to be, but not at the expense of your ethics, integrity, and reputation. It is simply not worth it. It nixes any chance of creating trusted working relationships."
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"When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness-I am nothing."
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"Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?"
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"Bad is always afraid of good and that is the reason why bad tries to eliminate good!"
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"The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth."
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"When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can't be surprised by a rising generation who then behaves disrespectfully, treating life, people, and choices as if they possess little value or worth. For whether or not that was the intention, society has taught them to believe thusly."
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"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."
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"I have a yearning for my beautiful country, and I love its people because of their misery. But if my people rose, simulated by plunder and motivated by what they call "patriotic spirit" to murder, and invaded my neighbour's country, then upon the committing of any human atrocity I would hate my people and my country."
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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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"Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one's consciousness can permit the faking of existence."
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"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
Reflection
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
Politics
"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."
Democracy
"A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there."
Religion
"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."
Unity
"There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor."
Humor
"Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed."
Truth
"Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
Reflection
"A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable."
Society
"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
Politics
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