"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
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"Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still"
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"I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil."
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"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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"If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid."
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"The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about that and realize that compromise is not evil."
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"We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason."
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"I face the world as it is and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake, evil does exist in the world."
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"Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness."
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"With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion."
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"Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good."
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"Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver of all living things. But the interpreters of his doctrines have confounded the good and the evil principle."
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"I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude."
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"All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil"
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"This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things."
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"You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth."
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"No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil."
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"Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil."
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"No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils."
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"Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting."
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