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Letter "S" » scruples
«There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
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«A disquieting era of genetic manipulation is coming, one that may revolutionize human capacities, and notions of health. If we treat moral scruples impatiently, as inherently retrograde in a scientifically advancing civilization, we will not be in moral trim when, soon, our very humanity depends on our being in trim.»
Author: George F. Will
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«I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.»
Author: John Updike
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«When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore»
«He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Cheating,
Fear
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scruple, scruples, without fear
«When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it»
«Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.»
«What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Fear,
Morality,
Punishment,
Sense of humor
| Keywords:
described, partly, restrains, scruple, scruples, sense of humor
«The revolutionary spirit is mightily convenient in this: that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas»
«A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.»
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