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Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy

Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible. – Samuel Butler

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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. – Samuel Butler

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Virtue
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If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s. – Samuel Butler

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Christianity
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Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she cant return it for a refund. – Carol Evertt

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Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Psalms 51:5 – Bible

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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. – Walter Benjamin

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I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition. – Sir Thomas Browne

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