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Upton Sinclair Novelist, Activist
Devil

"But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Devil

"Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day."

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Randy Wayne Musician
Devil

"Never whine about the French. It's considered a sign of weakness to even acknowledge their existence. Remember: The poor devils haven't won anything since they rebuffed the Kaiser at Marne. Irritating the world into submission is their only hope. Ignore them when you can, agree with them when you can't - but never, ever make eye contact. Particularly after dark."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie."

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Ti West Filmmaker
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"I don't generally watch the movie [ The House Of The Devil ]. It's sort of like hearing your voice on tape."

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil."

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God; in that way he would be playing the same part as an agent of economic discharge as the Jew does in the world of the Aryan ideal. But even so, one can hold God responsible for the existence of the Devil just as well as for the existence of the wickedness which the Devil embodies."

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