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1 " All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth. "
― Zoe Weil , Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life
2 " ...in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner. "
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Don Quixote
3 " He seriously thought that there is less harm in killing a man than producing a child: in the first case you are relieving someone of life, not his whole life but a half or a quarter or a hundredth part of that existence that is going to finish, that would finish without you; but as for the second, he would say, are you not responsible to him for all the tears he will shed, from the cradle to the grave? Without you he would never have been born, and why is he born? For your amusement, not for his, that’s for sure; to carry your name, the name of a fool, I’ll be bound – you may as well write that name on some wall; why do you need a man to bear the burden of three or four letters? "
― Gustave Flaubert , November
