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“And maps can really point to places Where life is evil now: Nanking. Dachau.”

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“If he had the cleft tongue of a devil, or the snake hair of a Medusa, or the matted hair of a wolf-monster, Akhmed might understand. But Ramazan had two eyes, a nose, and a mouth, pairs of arms and legs and ears, hair greasy, but not slimy and certainly not slithering, and Akhmed did not understand.”

Book:A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Source: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“Evil is termed as sin because it has the power to attract the mind. It acts upon our mind and heart to do what nature desires, even when such acts are prohibited by the laws of society. We feel guilty doing things that nature has designed as perfectly natural.”

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Book:The Secret Red Book of Leadership

Source: The Secret Red Book of Leadership

“A risk to own anything: a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around, not enough cars, shoes, cigarettes. Too many people, too few things. What there is must go into circulation, so that everyone can have a chance to be happy for a day. That is the theory; hold to the theory and to the comforts of theory. Not human evil, just a vast circulatory system, to whose workings pity and terror are irrelevant. That is how one must see life in this country: in its schematic aspect. Otherwise one could go mad. Cars, shoes; women too. There must be some niche in the system for women and what happens to them.”

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Book:Disgrace

Source: Disgrace

“When evil enters the world, do you think it comes with horns and cloven feet, billowing some foul stench?”

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Author:Zia Haider Rahman

“…all the evils of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings.”

Author:George Orwell

“Fire false friends. They are in to fast-forward your fall and failure.”

Source: Shaping the dream

“When practicing the art of not explaining yourself, you may need to verbally tell others you will not explain yourself. You mustn't explain why.”

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Author:Stephanie Peers

“Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.”

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Author:George Gordon Byron

“On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terror of meeting the thing again on dry land. Out of the sea there rise storms and monsters, but no evil powers: evil is of earth. And there is no sea, no running of river or spring, in the dark land where once Ged had gone. Death is the dry place.”

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Book:A Wizard of Earthsea

Source: A Wizard of Earthsea

“A douchebag has an image to maintain. He is not real. He is the kind of guy who will change his last name into something cooler and more impressive.”

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Author:Cory Duchesne