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James Dean Actor
Devil

"I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in the same room as me. I know I couldn’t tolerate myself."

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Keanu Reeves Actor, Producer
Devil

"I went with an exorcist for a bit. I just want to know really practical things, like how do you hold someone possessed by the devil."

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Thomas Aquinas Philosopher, Theologian
Devil

"When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness."

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Anthony Musician, Actor
Devil

"Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell."

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Martin Luther Theologian
Devil

"I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him"

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Devil

"If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse."

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Vincent de Paul Saint, Priest
Devil

"Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud"

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