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  1. Karen Traviss _ Ally

    We have complete choice as individuals: the only decisions we can take are our own. And yet so many species use the state of being an individual as an excuse for inaction, helplessness and irresponsibility.No situation is so overwhelming that action is pointless. Targassat of Surang.
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  2. Karen Traviss _ Matriarch

    People who wouldn't dream of drowning a puppy in a barrel full of water think nothing of killing a fish the same slow way.
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ Unseen Academicals

    And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior."
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  4. Frank Herbert _ Children of Dune

    These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness
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  5. Ayn Rand _ The Virtue of Selfishness: A

    Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge.
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  6. Carl Hiaasen _ Hoot

    Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.
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  7. Iris Murdoch _ A Fairly Honourable Defeat

    -La gente no suele saber aplicar la filosofía. Dudo de que ni siquiera los filósofos sepan hacerlo. -La gente puede usar conceptos morales lo mismo que tú has usado ahora el concepto de la verdad para convencerme. Cualquiera puede hacerlo. -Quizá. Pero creo que la filosofía moral es algo que resulta desesperanzadamente personal. No puede ser comunicado. «Si un león hablase, no podríamos comprenderlo», ha dicho Wittgenstein."
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  8. Jodi Picoult _ Perfect Match

    Having to face him at a competency hearing is like getting to hell and finding out that the only food available is raw liver-insult added to injury.
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  9. Jodi Picoult _ Perfect Match

    Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.
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  10. Jodi Picoult _ Perfect Match

    Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
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  11. Katie McGarry _ Chasing Impossible

    I'm right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and bad, a hero and a villain, and I've been just as capable of truth as I have been lies.
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