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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

Joseph Heller

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Freedom Live Strong
You’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.
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Appreciation Character Courage Intelligence Moral
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Job Principle Quit Regret
They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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Agree Education Necessary People Possible Question
Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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Deserve Fun Leadership Work
I’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.
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Ideas Life Novel Writing
While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
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Deal Greatness Important Work
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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Country Dare Exercise Freedom Independence Traditonal
Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
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Drive Live Packet
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Hope Misery
The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
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Enemy Kill War
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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Dreams Night
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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Freedom People Question Want
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Disagree Objective Urge
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren’t paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
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Ignorance Law Mind Nature Paranoid Promote

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