Nicole

=__Quotes__= =Abraham Lincoln: When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.= =Albert Einstein: A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.= =Charlotte Bronte: Conventionality is not morality.= =Cicero: Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.= =Jane Addams: Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.= =Mark Twain: Always do right--this will gratify some and astonish the rest.= =Mohandas K. Gandhi: The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.= =Pearl S. Buck: You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.= =Ralph Waldo Emerson: The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.= =Scott Alexander: All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.= =Shirley Chisholm: When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.= = = = = == ==

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== You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. Fear of a name increases fear of a thing itself. Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. And now Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure. --yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. It’s the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger. It is important to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on. Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute! Voldemort himself created his own worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry, any more than there is anything to be feared from the darkness. From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork. That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children’s tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing. That they all have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped. Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love. By returning, you may ensure that fewer souls are maimed, fewer families are torn apart. If that seems to you a worthy goal, then we say good-bye for the present. "Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?” “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
 * Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore**