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• The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Survival, Kind

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• You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.

  Rodney Carrington

  Way, Right Way, Ifs

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• Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

  Francois Rabelais

  Mind

  Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.250, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Race, Gossip, Scandal

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• Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

  Moliere

  Poison, Tongue, Proof

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• I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

  Barbra Streisand

  Tired, I'm Tired, Articles

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• With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Time, Art, Passion

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “The Destroyer”

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• The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

  David Mitchell

  Chickens

  David Mitchell (2008). “Ghostwritten”, p.385, Hachette UK

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• Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Narcissistic, Too Much

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Mother, Husband, Character

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• When people are talking about cyber weapons, digital weapons, what they really mean is a malicious program that's used for a military purpose. A cyber weapon could be something as simple as an old virus from 1995 that just happens to still be effective if you use it for that purpose.

  Edward Snowden

  Military, Mean, Simple

  "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.

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• Malicious men may die, but malice never.

  Moliere

  Men, May, Malice

  "Tartuffe". Play by Moliere, 1664.

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• Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Hate, Men

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• Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Causes, Emotion

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• Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy - forcefully, painfully, lastingly. . . . Plans have been disrupted, deals have been lost, companies have fallen, because of idle gossip or malicious slander. Reputations have been sullied, careers have been ruined, lives have been devastated, because of cruel lies or vicious rumors. . . . Your words have such power to do good or evil that they must be chosen carefully, wisely, and well.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Life, Lying, Careers

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• I am malicious because I am miserable

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Miserable

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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• Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Character, Warrior, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Power of Silence”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances, the world is like the pious St. Austin, who said he believed some things because they were absurd and impossible.

  Laurence Sterne

  Scandal, Austin, Stories

  Laurence Sterne (1803). “The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself”

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• I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

  Rick Pitino

  Jealous, Ignorant, Paranoid

  Mike Rutherford, Rick Pitino (2017). “100 Things Louisville Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die”, p.35, Triumph Books

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• I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Perseverance, Government, Duty

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.2761, Modern Library

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• Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not? If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, or morose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or to?

  John Angell James

  Men, Ideas, Passionate

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• I deserve a fair trial, like every other American citizen. A large amount of ugly, malicious misinformation has been released to the media about me.

  Michael Jackson

  Media, Citizens, Trials

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.

  Jim Goad

  Thinking, Way, Violent

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

  John Tillotson

  Passionate, Proud, Christ

  John Tillotson (1820). “Twenty Discourses on the Most Important Subjects: Calculated for Every Class of Readers”, p.70

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• Lust is as it were desire and desire, will which extends beyond the natural will, passionate, not governed by the law and moderation. There are thus many forms of lust, like the many forms of sin ... Lust does not approach the soul in the form of a warlike enemy, but in the form of a friend or a pleasant servant. It suggests some sort of pleasure or illusory good. But this is only a trick by which the malicious angler strives to lead astray and catch the poor soul. Remember this when you are tempted by lust.

  Patriarch Philaret of Moscow

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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