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Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows. – Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.
Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation. – R Chamberlain
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am...blood. That primordial ooze. Not out there, listeners, in here. Inside this skin we wear, it only lets us think we're something else-- nice clean brains, little talking computers running around in the pursuit of happiness. We pierce this skin and what do we see Warm ooze, protoplasm churning and jesting, defecating, pulsating, life, death. – Robin Green
If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick. – Bob Dylan
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization. – L. Frank Baum
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. – George Santayana
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. – David H. Comins

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