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Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money. Diane Cilento
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. Edith Sitwell
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Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic. Bertrand Russell
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Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you? William Shakespeare
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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation. Alain Badiou
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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. Aristotle
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Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has never been a party to an ethics truce and has always said that individual members have the right to file a complaint.
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My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. Arthur Keith
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He can't mention ethics because he has failed to keep his promises.
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Here's the final word from a giant of American jurisprudence on the methods, motives and ethics of Ken Starr. Jim Jordan
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I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times. Janet Montgomery
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One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard. Tom Paulin
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To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says. D. H. Lawrence
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The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties. Mason Cooley
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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan. Richard Hofstadter