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81 " We do not live an equal life but one of contrasts and patchwork now a little joy then a sorrow now a sin then a generous or brave action. "
82 " If there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. "
83 " Self-love my liege is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. "
84 " Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one. "
85 " Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards. "
86 " Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god? "
87 " Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects. "
88 " And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness. "
89 " Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease. "
90 " The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination. "