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Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

Diana Gabaldon

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Diana Gabaldon
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 11
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Williams
Arizona
Diana J. Gabaldon Perez
Power
Men
Decrease
Increases
Tends
Morality
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Sense

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......what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.
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I was born for you -Claire Fraser, Outlander
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For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here, he said, so softly I could barely hear him, here in the dark, with you… I have no name.
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This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her? She cost me almost everything I had, he said, with a wry tone that made the others laugh. But worth it.
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If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.
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