"Evil has only the power we give it."
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"Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick."
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"Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds."
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"Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good."
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"The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods."
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"The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them."
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"What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy."
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"Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave."
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"The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over."
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"The sun shines even on the wicked."
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"Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life."
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"Paul Ryan's just a really, deeply evil little creature. But he's not little; he's actually quite tall, I'm sorry to see. I'm always sorry when really bad guys are tall."
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"This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion."
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"A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good"
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"I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry."
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"The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any."
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"The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, heat of cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything."
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"If the whole responsibility is thrown upon our own shoulders, we shall be at our highest and best; when we have nobody to grope towards, no devil to lay our blame upon, no Personal God to carry our burdens, when we are alone responsible, then we shall rise to our highest and best. I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil."
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"It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!"
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"Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe."
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