Values are good things only if they are good values. ~Michael Josephson, whatwillmatter.com
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We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. ~Gloria Steinem...
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Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. ~Maltbie Babcock...
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I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I......
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Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness. ~Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book...
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live......
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in......
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb...
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Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? ~William Lloyd Garrison...
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Character is higher than intellect. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson...
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I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took......
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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what’s right. ~Isaac Asimov...
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter...
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Just do good, don’t worry about the road ahead. ~Monk Wansong...
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I would rather be right than President. ~Henry Clay, speech, 1850MCTO...
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Goodness is beauty in the best estate. ~Christopher Marlowe...
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Conscience warns us before it reproaches us. ~Comtesse Diane (Marie Josephine de Suin de Beausacq),......
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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won’t. ~Alfred KorzyybskiDCMOO...
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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and......
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Reputation is character minus what you’ve been caught doing. ~Michael Iapoce, A Funny Thing Happened......
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I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back. ~Abraham Lincoln...
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Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. ~Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New......
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What you allow, you encourage. ~Michael Josephson, whatwillmatter.com...
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