"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."
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"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."
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"Our distrust is very expensive."
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"The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics."
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"All phenomena link together in a mutually conditioning network."
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"Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them."
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"There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics."
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"I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad."
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"Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic."
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"Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues."
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"Duty is what one expects from others."
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"Morality is not respectability."
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"Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest."
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"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."
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"May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me."
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"It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself."
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"For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity."
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"Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible."
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"Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer."
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"I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life."
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