"There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune."
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"It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil."
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"The snake stood up for evil in the Garden."
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"We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism"
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"I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil."
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"In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible."
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"It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost."
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"They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world."
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"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."
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"No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on."
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"Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil."
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"The ethics of sex is a thorny problem. Each of us is forced to grope for a solution he can live with - in the face of preposterous, unworkable, and evil code of so-called 'Morals.' Most of us know the code is wrong, almost everybody breaks it. But we pay Danegeld by feeling guilty and giving lip service. Willy-nilly, the code rides us, dead and stinking, an albatross around the neck."
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"But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil."
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"Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2."
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"To fight evil is to fight ourselves."
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"Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I."
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"You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil."
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"My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action."
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"Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials."
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"Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear, nor are they one thing among Elves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house."
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