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"Fire is the spirit of candle and honesty is the spirit of man. Without spirit, there shall be no light but darkness" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon-See No evil, Hear No evil and evil." »Robert Joseph Bob Dole
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"Remember that the evil which is now in the world will only get more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love." »The Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, Letter, 1917
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"spirit is living, and Life is spirit, and Life and spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two." »H Hahn Blavatsky
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"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil." »Plato
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"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" »Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
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"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insiduously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to seperate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" »Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
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"The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age." »Nadia Boulanger
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"To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil." »Prophet Mohammed
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"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit." »Demosthenes
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"The Holy spirit makes a man a Christian, and if he is a Christian through the work of the Holy spirit, that same spirit draws him to other Christians in the church. An individual Christian is not Christian at all." »R. Brokhoff
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"Your mind is your spirit; do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of a spirit rising to the sky is no more real than a medieval Scandinavian fairytales!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them." »Homer, The Odyssey
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"Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them." »Homer
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"What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection." »Oprah Winfrey
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"The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the spirit of the universe, and the spirit of the universe in the spirit of peace." »Maitri Upanishads
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"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." »Jimmy Carter
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"No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from." »George Eliot, internet
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"A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible." »Thomas Hardy
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"No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." »Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs." »J. Hawes
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"evil is relative…You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger." »Glen Cook, The Black Company
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"A man ought not to return evil for evil, as many think, since at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbour.*" »Plato
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"evil to him who evil thinks.
(Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)" »King Edward the Third, Motto of the order of the Garter
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"Each child is an evil. Each adult is an self-control or be controlled evil." »Woody Haldrugold
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"evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty." »Simone Weil
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"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." »Plato
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"The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit." »Bible
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"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles." »Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
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