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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst

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