"Morality is only moral when it is voluntary."

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Lincoln Steffens

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“Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.”
“Now the big danger is to avoid doing anything, unless you have a surety, unless you have an assurance that you'll be successful. It's not about being successful. It's about being faithful. The good is worth doing, because it's good. And who knows what the results will be?”

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“Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle. We come awake to such a realization when we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension.”
“Climbing does not mean just competition and performance. It has other qualities that are important: going on trips, meeting people, seeing other cultures...”
“There has certainly been a great deal of work addressing the relationship between naturalism and the first-person perspective. Quite a number of philosophers have suggested that there are features of the first-person perspective that naturalism just cannot accommodate, whether it be qualitative character, or consciousness, or simply the ability we have to think of ourselves in a distinctively first-person manner.”

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“This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.”
“Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.”
“It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.”

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