"It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest."
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"I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation."
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"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences."
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"If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it's your moral obligation to sell it."
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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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"The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation."
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"Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?"
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"We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people"
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"In morals, always do as others do; in art, never."
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"At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable."
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"Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence."
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"The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind."
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"If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't stop equal marriage rights."
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"No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of its authority either from the circumstance of its novelty or its antiquity, that it should be judged excellent, not because it is reasonable or true, but because no person has ever thought of it before, or because it has been thought of from the beginning of time."
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"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
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"Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral."
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"The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting."
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"The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests."
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"Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work."
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"Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science."
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