People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
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Rites, sacraments, and ceremonials are valuable to the extent that they remind those who take part in them of the true Nature of Things.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
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