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• We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Weakness, Wickedness, Changed

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• We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

  Herbert Spencer

  Soul, Forget, Goodness

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “First Principles”, p.3

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• I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Political, Social, Found

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• I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer.

  Steven Weinberg

  Hands, Might, Needs

  Steven Weinberg (2001). “Facing Up”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Squares, Roots, Irrationality

  "Irrationality is the Square Root of All Evil". Scientific American, 249 (3), September 1983.

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• We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%

  Donald Knuth

  Opportunity, Roots, Debugging

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• The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

  Larry Wall

  Greater Good, Greater

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• All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are moulding your destiny for good or evil; in fact, the truth is that the whole of our life’s experience is but the outer expression of inner thought. Now we can choose the sort of thoughts that we entertain. It will be a little difficult to break a bad habit of thought, but it can be done. We can choose how we shall think—in point of fact, we always do choose—and therefore our lives are just the result of the kind of thoughts we have

  Emmet Fox

  Jesus, Destiny, Thinking

  Emmet Fox (2010). “The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God.

  Emmet Fox

  Emmet Fox (1940). “Power Through Constructive Thinking”

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• A man who knows a thing, recognizes a given danger, and sees with his own eyes the possibility of a remedy, damned well has the duty and the obligation not to work 'silently', but to stand up openly against the evil and for its cure. If he does not do so then he is a faithless, miserable weakling who fails either from cowardice or from laziness and incompetence....Every last agitator who possesses the courage to defend his opinions with manly forth-rightness, standing on a tavern table among his adversaries, accomplishes more than a thousand of these lying, treacherous sneaks.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Lying, Eye, Men

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• We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Years, Car

  "Oracle Of Omaha Says President Obama Must Step Up". Interview with Paul Tharp, www.nypost.com. March 10, 2009.

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• The gift of a bad man can bring no good.

  Euripides

  Men, Bad Man

  Euripides (1832). “Euripides”, p.182

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• Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

  Philip James Bailey

  Hell, Bearable, Nothingness

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.36

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• Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

  Samuel Johnson

  Secret, Vices, Mystery

  Samuel Johnson (1948). “The wisdom of Dr. Johnson: being comments on life and moral precepts chosen from his writings”

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• Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Vices, Sage

  Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

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• It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.

  Charles Hodge

  Men, Rely Upon, Wicked

  Charles Hodge (1860). “An Exposition of the First Epistle to the Corinthians”, p.340

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• No man ever became very wicked all at once.

  Juvenal

  Men, Wicked

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• Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

  Tryon Edwards

  Easier, Results, Remedy

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1063, Ravenio Books

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• The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  History, Lessons, Firsts

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• Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Home, Criminals, Percent

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• Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.

  Earl Nightingale

  Real, People, Anxiety

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• It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

  Plato

  Noble, Return, Neighbor

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• Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.

  George Washington

  Truth, Honesty, Men

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• The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past examples of violence inflicted by men against thier fellow human beings.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Past, Men, Agriculture

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• Life is not at all what you might think it to be
  A simple tale where each thing has its history
  It's much more than its scuffle and anything goes
  Both evil and good, subject to the same laws.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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