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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. – Jane Addams

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Americas future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. – Jane Addams

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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain – until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. – Jane Addams

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Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite. – Proverb

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In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave — with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble. – Geoffrey L. Rudd, The British Vegetarian, September/October 1962

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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. – Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. – Matthew Prior

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I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancers body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. – Martha Graham

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