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Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
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The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.
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Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
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