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Virtue

I have fairly tried being virtuous and I have found that it does not match my innate moral degeneracy.

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Pendergast: The Beginning (Agent Pendergast, #0)

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“Dr. Albert Frock: Well, how goes the gradual extinction of the human race, Lieutenant?
Lt. Vincent D'Agosta: I'm doing what I can to keep it orderly.”
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“There was a pause while Pendergast considered this. “I prefer hypocrisy to poverty.”
― Douglas Preston, Blue Labyrinth

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“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
― Edward Abbey

tags: activism, dissent, moral-courage, patriotism, protest

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“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

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“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

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