If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food,because ... its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling killing.
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Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of welfare.Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.
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I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
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For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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