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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.
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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.


Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that's also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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I'm a great believer in karma, and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.
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One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
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Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
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When caught in the clutches of a predator, the jelly produces a light display that is a pinwheel of light that is basically a call for help. It serves to attract the attention of a larger predator that may attack their attacker, thereby affording them an opportunity for escape.
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I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it's been amazing to me, everything I read before about psychology, philosophy, just to put it into practice somehow.
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Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.


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I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.


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They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
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A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
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Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.


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He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.


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Supernatural does not mean methodological stupidity.


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What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.


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