No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things to them unwillingly.


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ROBERT GROSSETESTE
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MARCO OSCAR OZ
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CESARE PAVESE
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TWILA BRASE
Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison
BUDDHA
Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
SHALOM ROKEACH
Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
SHALOM ROKEACH
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
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STEVEN WEINBERG
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GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS
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A.S. BYATT
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FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
HOMER
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MAX VON SYDOW
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HESIOD
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
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STEVEN WEINBERG
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C.S. LEWIS
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COLSON WHITEHEAD
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LEOPOLDO LOPEZ
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TOBA BETA
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WILLIAM GIBSON
It's no good to give money to anybody
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TOBA BETA
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
FRANCIS QUARLES
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WILLIAM GIBSON
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ERIC THODE
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KRISTAN PETERS-HAMLIN
And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we...
PHILIP PULLMAN
Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of...
HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ
The main goal is to respond willingly and reliably to verbal commands. And on top of that, they shou...
SHELLY FERGER
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
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JOHN CONNOLLY
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CARICE VAN HOUTEN
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JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of eve...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
And that the hearts of those who do not believe in the hereafter may incline to it and that they may...
QURAN
They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their a...
CRISS JAMI
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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GAUTAMA BUDDHA
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BUDDHA
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QUENTIN BRYCE
I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.
HULK HOGAN
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STEVEN WEINBERG
There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and...
JOHN STERLING
There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and...
JOHN STERLING
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary on...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary onl...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
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RONALD REAGAN
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NORA ROBERTS
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
BIBLE
Mugabe has built his power base on the politics of patronage ... and all those things are part of th...
ELDRED MASUNUNGURE
They do their evil deeds, and pretend otherwise; but in the Court of the Lord, they shall be bound a...
ATHARVA VEDA
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KAREN MARIE MONING
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
BENJAMIN SPOCK
There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.
MODERN MATURITY
There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age
BENJAMIN SPOCK
I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
AESCHYLUS
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
BODHIDHARMA
It was Christ who willingly went to the cross, and it was our sins that took him there.
FRANKLIN GRAHAM
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EPICURUS
Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not s...
FREDERICK FARRAR
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ERIC BUTTERWORTH
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BUDDHA
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R.C. SPROUL
Success is a prize given to those who try and fail willingly.
JEFFREY BRYANT
The evil that men do leads after them, but the evil that women do surprises the devil himself.
THE INSPIRATIONIST
It is our obligation to free them from the clutches of evil, evil that has no boundaries,
GIDEON EZRA
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PHILIP ZIMBARDO
Stay away from evil deeds and indulge in virtuous ones, surrender totally to the will of God. A man,...
ATHARVA VEDA
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is n...
MAX LERNER
There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, o...
ANNE BRADSTREET
Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can ...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)
Here though, there are no oppressors. No one's forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to...
DAVE EGGERS
Love, affection, even attention are not things that need pursuit. If they are not given freely, open...
CHARLES F. GLASSMAN
The difference between stupid and intelligent people -- and this is true whether or not they are wel...
NEAL STEPHENSON
When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbag...
NICK JOAQUíN
A man who believes that all things are possible, approaches the unconventional with an open mind and...
BRENDEN J. WILLIAMS
Men willingly believe what they wish.
JULIUS CAESAR
Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will ris...
DR. SEUSS
One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-mean...
PAMELA MEYER
I truly enjoy no more of the world's good things than what I willingly distribute to the needy
SENECA
A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
WILLIAM PENN
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it
WILLIAM PENN
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
WILLIAM PENN

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