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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
Gary Hamel
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.


Tacitus
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
Emma Goldman
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There's nothing more addictive or incredible in life than reinventing yourself and allow yourself to be different every day.
Thalia
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
D. H. Lawrence
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Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.


Pope Francis
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I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.


Chris Pine
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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson
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I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.


Peter Hook
I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me.
Ester Dean
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A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.
Russell Lynes
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Conventionality is not morality.


Charlotte Bronte
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We don't need to allow any more Nancy Pelosies to wind up in Congress.


Michael Steele
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Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.
John Strachan
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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
Paul de Man
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Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow.
Stephen Colbert
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Compassion is the basis of morality.


Arthur Schopenhauer
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There's no such thing as morality.


Robert M. Pirsig
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.


Friedrich Nietzsche
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I don't believe in morality in architecture.


Michael Graves