"The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell."
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"The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet."
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"To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils."
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"Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it."
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"Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil."
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"There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded."
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"Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered."
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"Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit."
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"Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to."
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"At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions."
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"All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing."
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"The canter is a cure for every evil."
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"A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil."
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"As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities."
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"It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless."
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"Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics."
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"It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine."
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"Why are you wearing that negligee? Sure makes it hard to walk away."
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"The evil is so ubiquitous in terms of objectification of all of us, that one can say that almost about any TV and even radio show."
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"It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you."
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