#oral

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

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Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

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My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it. ↗

— Olivia Williams

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A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. ↗

— Saul Williams

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Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war. ↗

— Charles Wilson

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There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

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Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun. ↗

— April Winchell

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