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In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) Opening sentence, p. 1 -
In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
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It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
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It is a lovely thing to live with courage, and to die leaving behind everlasting renown.
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It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
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It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.
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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.
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It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.
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It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
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