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"An evil-minded man is quick to see His neighbour?s faults, though small as mustard seed; But when he turns his eyes towards his own, Though large as bilva fruit, he none descries." »Mahabharata
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"Low-minded men are occupied solely with their own affairs, but noble-minded men take special interest in the affairs of others. The submarine fire drinks up the ocean, to fill its insatiable interior; the rain-cloud, that it may relieve the drought of the earth, burnt up by the hot season." »Bhartrihari
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"It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman." »Johann von Goethe
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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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"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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"To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil." »Prophet Mohammed
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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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"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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"No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." »Mary Wollstonecraft
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"He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes." »Black Elk
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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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"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 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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"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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"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." »Plato
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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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"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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"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
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"People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones." »Charles Franklin Kettering
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"The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think." »Aristotle
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"I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS." »Robert Bakker
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others." »Virginia Woolf
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others." »Virginia Woolf
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"Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do neccesary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent." »Vincent Van Gogh
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