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Jean Racine Playwright, Poet
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"He who bridles the fury of the billows knows also to put a stop to the secret plans of the wicked. Submitting with respect to His holy will, I fear God, and have no other fear."

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"[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work."

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked."

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one."

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Amos Elon Journalist
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"In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never served as a unifying factor. Their adherents were equally manipulated by the clergies to regard the others as wicked infidels or idolaters. The centuries passed in constant pious agitation and in frequent religious wars."

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
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"I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion."

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