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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    John Green
    “Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
    ― John Green
    tags: humor, nerdfighters
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Stephen King
    “When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
    ― Stephen King, Storm of the Century
    tags: god, humor, religion
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  • #5
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: freedom, law, morality, rules
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  • #6
    Robin Williams
    “See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.”
    ― Robin Williams
    tags: humor, men
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: body, doctrine, ethics, law, morality, principles, religion, soul, steadfastness, temptation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “No good deed goes unpunished.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: morality, usefulness
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  • #10
    “The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
    ― Lily Tomlin
    tags: humor, life, rat-race
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  • #11
    Dante Alighieri
    “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
    tags: afterlife, attributed-no-source, hell, morality, neutrality
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  • #12
    Dr. Seuss
    “When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
    and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
    ...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
    bottle paddle battle.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Fox in Socks
    tags: childrens, humor
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  • #13
    Charles Dickens
    “In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: cowardice, morality, pip
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  • #14
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk
    tags: humor, love
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
    tags: hunter-s-thompson, kingdom-of-fear, morality, wisdom
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    Cassandra Clare
    “I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them."
    "Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: clary-fray, hodge, humor, revenge, sarcasm, tea
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  • #17
    Henry David Thoreau
    “If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: example, leadership, morality, right, righteousness
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  • #18
    George Carlin
    “Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: fighting, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, peace, sex
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  • #19
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: bravery, fearlessness, morality
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    Janet Evanovich
    “Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head."
    Eddie DeChooch”
    ― Janet Evanovich, Seven Up
    tags: humor
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  • #21
    Aristotle
    “All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: mob-mentality, morality
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  • #22
    Robert Frost
    “Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
    And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: humor, poetry, religion
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    Aristotle
    “A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: morality, politics, religion
    97 likes

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  • #24
    Woody Allen
    “To you, I'm an atheist.
    To God, I'm the loyal opposition.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: absurd, atheism, humor
    1954 likes

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  • #25
    Erich Fromm
    “There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.”
    ― Erich Fromm, Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics
    tags: dishonesty, double-standards, envy, hate, indignation, morality, vice, virtue
    322 likes

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    Bill Watterson
    “As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: humor
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  • #27
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: fate, love, people
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  • #28
    “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres
    tags: age, exercise, family, grandmothers, grandparents, humor, walking
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  • #29
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Only sick music makes money today.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bank, bankers, humor
    1600 likes



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