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"7 DEADLY SINS

Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

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"I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.

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— Jim Carroll (Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems)

tags: poetry, sins

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"All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money."
— Rupaul

tags: humor, money, past, present, sins, thought, truth

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"[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?"
— Frank Harris (Oscar Wilde)

tags: civilization, homosexuality, punishment, sins, temptation

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""What sorts of sin?"

"Any sort. When other people commit them, you are startled, but when you commit them yourself, they seem absolutely natural.""
— Elspeth Huxley (The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood)

tags: sins

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"How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing."
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Stolen Apples)

tags: confessor, poetry, russian, sinners, sins

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