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  • Iris Murdoch Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Martin Luther King Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aldous Huxley Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Immanuel Kant Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Albert Einstein Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Agnes Smedley More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Traherne More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Candice Millard More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
    The Pilgrims Regress
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Ben Horowitz Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broken. And if you're not honest at the point where you're breaking trust anyway, you will never recover.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Casey Stengel Most games are lost, not won.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • James A. Garfield Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Jerry Rubin Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.
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  • Woodrow Wilson Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • A. E. Housman Most men are rather stupid, and most of those who are not stupid are, consequently, rather vain.
    The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism, a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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