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The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#guilt #immorality #morality #religion #shame

Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our? ↗

— Aysha Taryam

#culture #humanity-and-society #philosophical-musings #philosophy-of-life #life

Kau mungkin tidak percaya pada kehidupan, tapi aku tidak percaya pada kematian. ↗

— Yann Martel

#kehidupan #kematian #mati #percaya #life

প্রত্যেকের জীবনে এমন একজন মানুষের উপস্থিতির অনিবার্য প্রয়োজন যাকে দেখলে চোখদু ’ টো জুড়িয়ে যায়, মনে প্রশান্তি আসে, জীবনের গ্লানি দূর হয়, এবং .. এবং মনে হয়, আমাকে দেখে তাঁরও মুখমন্ডল উদ্ভাসিত হয়। ↗

— Abu Taher Misbah

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Surely,' she said, much quieter, more reasonable, 'surely you've been with other women?' His glance at her was dry. 'What do you think?' She looked away at random. 'I think that it appears we have a double standard, here. Men can have sex, women can't. Who, then, do the men have sex with? ↗

— Amanda Carpenter

#life #love #men #society #standard

If you look at another woman, I’ll rip your eyes out. Touch one and I’ll cut off your hands. Kiss her and I’ll sever your tongue from your mouth. “You don’t want to know what I’ll do if I find out your dick got anywhere near another woman. So the choice is yours, you can live life as a blind, mute eunuch with stubs at the end of your arms or you can close the club... ↗

— Jenny Penn

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All right, Schwartz, tackle my mind now. Go as deep as you want. I was born on Baronn in the Sirius Sector. I lived my life in an atmosphere of anti-Terrestrialism in the formative years, so I can't help what flaws and follies lie at the roots of my subconscious. But look on the surface and tell me if, in my adult years, I have not fought bigotry in myself. Not in others; that would be easy. But in myself, and as hard as I could. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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Le bonheur n'est pas une chose aisee, Il est tres difficile de le trouver dans nous, et impossible de le trouver ailleurs." TRANSLATION: "Happiness is not easy to come by, it is hard to find it within ourselves, and impossible to find it anywhere else. ↗

— Nicholas Chamfort

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Snub end of a dismal year, deep in the dwarf orchard, The sky with its undercoat of blackwash and point stars, I stand in the dark and answer to My life, this shirt I want to take off, which is on fire . . . ↗

— Charles Wright

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When people grow old and look back on their lives, they don't regret what they did, they regret what they didn't do. ↗

— Joan Caraganis Jakobson

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