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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of

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

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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. – Jane Addams

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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. – Jane Addams

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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. – Logan Pearsall Smith

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Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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We are not hypocrites in our sleep. – William Hazlitt

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A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. – J. Pierpoint Morgan

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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. – Doug Coupland

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The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations. – Eli Khamarov

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The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion. – Emily Carr

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I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late 40s and early 50s was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival. – Angela Davis

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