"There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think."
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"The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats."
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"Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself."
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"In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh."
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"1.Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2.Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3.Never spend your money before you have it. 4.Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5.Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6.We never repent of having eaten too little. 7.Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8.How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 9.Take things always by their smooth handle. 10.When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred."
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"There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good.'...one might point to the way in which racial hatreds and even persecution are admitted by people who consider themselves, and perhaps in some sense are, kind, tolerant, civilized and even humane."
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"A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book."
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"A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!"
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"Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it."
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"The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life."
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"Don't be evil is a load of crap."
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"I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up."
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"The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error."
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"All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind."
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"Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil."
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"Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger."
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"Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself."
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"Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it."
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"Those who understand evil pardon it."
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"In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast as in California, and in none of them, perhaps, are the evil effects so manifest."
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