Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of principles already held.
The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.
The Nicomachean Ethics
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The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.
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