“In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.”
Lucifer's Hammer (1985)
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We The Living (1936)
Source: We The Living Part One Chapter 6

Source: Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship

Presumably a paraphrase of "A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct" or of "Hunting for sport is an improvement ..." above.
Unlikely to be by Leopold, who knew that ethics involves not only doing the right thing, but also determining the right thing in the face of competing desirable criteria.
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Session 891
The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, (1981)

A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Collective Ownership of Code and Text

As quoted in "Evolution? No" http://archives.adventistreview.org/2004-1509/story2.html, The Adventist Review (2004)

Morarji Desai speaks about life and celibacy

“The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not giving”