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    Rise above principle and do what is right.

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    Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

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    Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved.

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    Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

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    Secure in whom we are, rooted in one particular tradition or none at all, we have no reason to fear discovering God in the truth and wisdom of many traditions. Love casts out fear inviting us into happiness for all people and Creation.

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    Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

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    Service to many leads to greatness- great respect, great satisfaction.

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    Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

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    Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

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    Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

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    Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

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    Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp.

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    State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

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    So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.

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    Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.

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    Sudan replaced the U.S. on the U.N. Human Rights Commission joining Syria, and Cuba. So now, the commission members have no interest in upholding the stated mission of the panel. It's just like the Senate Ethics Committee.

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    The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability.

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    TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination.

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    .. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

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    That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.

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    Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

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    Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

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    The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

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    The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

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    The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

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    The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.

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    The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

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    The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

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    The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

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    The best cinema is about ethics.

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    The Christian ethic did not raise the worth of female life much above the Jewish: nor did the clinical ethic raise it much above the clerical. This is why most of those identified as witches by male inquisitors were women; and why most of those diagnosed as hysterics by male psychiatrists were also women.

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    The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

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    The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

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    The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.

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    The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people!

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    The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

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    The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

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    The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.

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    The experience of previous years leads to one conclusion: there is one morality in politics and another for economy. In the years since 1989, the morality of the economy has fully prevailed over the ethics of politics and democracy.

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    The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

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    The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.

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    The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.

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    The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

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    The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

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    The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

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    The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

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    The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status.

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    The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

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    The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

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    The market has no morality