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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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• A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Enemy, Clumsy

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• My rage is not malicious; like a spark
  Of fire by steel inforced out of a flint
  It is no sooner kindled, but extinct.

  William Goffe

  Anger, Fire, Steel

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• We must not stint
  Our necessary actions in the fear
  To cope malicious censurers, which ever,
  As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow
  That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further
  Than vainly longing.

  William Shakespeare

  Benefits, Action, Longing

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Jay L. Halio (1999). “King Henry VIII, Or, All is True”, p.90, Oxford University Press

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• One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt's belt.

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Heart, Artist, Flirting

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.42, The Floating Press

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• I don't want to be so analytical of my own life, because if I start to be analytical of my own life, maybe I'll choose not to believe anything that's going on. But, the fact of the matter is, I've experienced both sides of it now. Sides where you have a great time with people on set, and then you do just step away. And it's not malicious. It's just that people go back and live their lives and do whatever.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Believe, People, Want

  Source: collider.com

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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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• Human nature has its fatal weaknesses, but 'love' means embracing the whole of human nature, the bad within the good, the benign within the malicious, the beautiful within the tragic. 'Love' is the experience of this whole, its unfinished parts, including those of one's own in relation to those of the other.

  Qiu Miaojin

  Beautiful, Mean, Love Is

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• Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.

  Matthew Specktor

  Sacrifice, Decision, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sweet, Children, Compassion

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• There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a word--a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.

  Laurence Sterne

  Heart, Wind, Ill Will

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)”, p.532, Delphi Classics

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• We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Delight, Bittersweet, Kind

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• Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.

  Richard Stallman

  Program, Source, Software

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• One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Interaction With Others, Bored, Trying

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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• [Stephenson] believes that, as research becomes more airborne and more office-bound, we generalize more and more, and we lose the vast range of wolf experience; in fact, there are soft wolves and hard wolves, kind wolves and malicious wolves, soldiers and nurses, philosophers and bullies.

  Peter Steinhart

  Believe, Office, Nurse

  Peter Steinhart (2011). “The Company of Wolves”, p.142, Vintage

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• Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

  George Chapman

  Men, Done, Virtue

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• I like to believe that most human beings go about things with a point of view that they're just doing what they feel like they need to do at that time. Sometimes people make bad decisions, but it's not evil, not malicious.

  Dane DeHaan

  Believe, Views, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Companies will often use the legal system to scare people away from attacking them. But we all should be free to make critical statements about anybody, unless those statements are malicious.

  Lawrence Lessig

  People, Scare, Use

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• ...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fashion, Revenge, Expectations

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• There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure.

  Anna Cora Mowatt

  Strong, Curiosity, Actors

  Anna Cora Mowatt, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (1854). “Autobiography of an Actress: Or, Eight Years on the Stage”, p.220

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• One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Fate, Pleasure, Compelled

  Jean Baudrillard, Chris Turner (1996). “Cool Memories II, 1987-1990”, Duke University Press Books

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• A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Proud, Absurdity

  Jonathan Edwards (1824). “The Treatise on Religious Affections”, p.234

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• Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

  Barbara Mertz

  Cat, People, Touching

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• As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.

  Henry Rollins

  Children, Class, Parent

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• If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Men, Abuse

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