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Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case. ↗

— John Rawls

#capacity #case #certainly #clearly #compassion

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#common #could #different #different types #environment

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism. ↗

— Herbert Read

#equality #freedom #must #nationalism #new

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos. ↗

— Herbert Read

#build #deny #enduring #ethos #i

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

#buddhism #catholic #could #mankind #masses

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there. ↗

— Maureen Reagan

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I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#frankly #i #join #members #one thing

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly. ↗

— Ron Reagan

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I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#cause #community #country #gave #give

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#business #couple #department #department store #even