If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.
– Rebecca Manley Pippert
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- Let’s just say you may regret that second piece of cake.’ Oh my God. Regret cake? Whatever was about to happen must be truly evil. – Rachel Hawkins
- When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things happen. – David Allen
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