Adin Ballou Quotes
How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?
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Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will believe more strongly that they determine right and wrong, that not even the world's rulers are subject to a higher authority.
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It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
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Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.
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The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
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It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's to do the inner work they stimulate.
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Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
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There are two types of businesses -- the ones that buy into Microsoft and those that don't. The people who bought into the Microsoft world probably won't switch to Mono. The other people -- those using Java or LAMP might do, though.
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Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.
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I think it's very, very, very hard to get a book published. I never want to be one of those teachers that say, 'don't do this, ' because how sad would the world be if people didn't create art and write? But, it's not an easy journey being a writer.
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If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
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How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?
