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There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character. – Frederick W. Faber

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Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort. – Bert Murray

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I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves — such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. – Albert Einstein, “What I Believe,” Forum and Century, 1930

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Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage. – William Lloyd Garrison

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The only guy I have to get better than is who I am right now. – M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

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