"It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest."
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"Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father."
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"You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast. Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, 'Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.' For to the fruit giving is a need as receiving is a need to the root."
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"Stop screamin', you know the demon said it's best to die, And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils."
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"The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun."
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"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good."
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"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power."
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"They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest."
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"I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' --or else not."
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"Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it."
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"Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all."
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"Ignorance: the root of all evil."
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"Let us not become the evil that we deplore."
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"And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain."
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"Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious."
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"Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather."
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"Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict."
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"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals."
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"Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures."
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"Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know."
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