"The face of evil is always the face of total need."
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"The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little."
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"If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word."
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"The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you"
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"No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us."
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"If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil"
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"Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself."
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"Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not that it isn't there, but you'll be able to step out of its way. Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself."
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"With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear."
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"Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust."
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"To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation."
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"Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one."
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"Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence."
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"Hello, my name is Noam and I have the answer to all your problems. It's all the fault of the evil Americans, the bad conservative ones that fill the airwaves with their lies and are in power and want to oppress the world. There. Now give me money so that I can soothsay again and assuage your guilt."
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"I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only."
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"Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook."
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"To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise."
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"You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone."
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"The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence."
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"To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted."
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