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“There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should.”

Ifs Thinking Should Happens Fall Evil Fear Terrible Aspect Stronger Luck Ill Dare Expected Resilience Horrible Behave Misfortunes

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.”

Persons Happens America Fighting Evil Lines Cities New York Picks Fortune Billions Likes Good And Evil New York City Mayors Starks

Author:Jeff Goodell

“When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to us, and Providence has in fact so established the order of things, as that most evils are the means of producing some good.”

May Mean Facts Happens Order Evil Habit Arise Providence Consolation

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free country will ever understand that kind of fear. What is most horrifying is the realization that you have no idea what can happen, that your life is totally in the hands of someone in the chair in front of you, someone might well be a demon.”

Knows Wells Kind Ideas Country Hands Might Happens Life Is Evil Worst Fronts Hearing Realization No Idea Demon Chairs Free Country Worst Fear

Author:Diet Eman

“Bad things happen because we live in a world with evil.”

World Happens Evil Things Happen Bad Things Bad Things Happen

Author:Tarryn Fisher

“a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.”

World Happens Evil Greater Particular England Restoration Bourbon

Book:Memorials and correspondence

Source: Memorials and correspondence

“The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.”

Source: Clearing the ground

“It does happen, of course, that the priesthood has been on bad terms with womankind for some three thousand years. You see, Buddhism teaches that women are evil. Fiends. Messengers of hell. I've spent years immersed in the scriptures, so it's no accident that you and I fight all the time.”

Years Doe Has Beens Happens Fighting Three Courses Evil Term Teach Hell Buddhism Thousand Accidents Scripture Thousand Years Messengers Priesthood

Book:Musashi

Source: Musashi

“Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.”

Heart May Happens Suffering Evil Share Total War Stout

Book:Histories

Source: Histories

“It is among the evils, and perhaps not the smallest, of democratical governments, that the people must feel before they will see. When this happens they are roused to action. Hence it is that those kinds of government are so slow.”

People Feels Kind Government Happens Action Evil Smallest

Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious