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"Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it."
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"Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil."

"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."

"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself."

"What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it."
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"...Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular tyrant has engendered royalty, which is authority based on falsehood, whereas science is authority based on truth. Man should be governed by science alone.""And conscience," added the bishop."It's the same thing. Conscience is the quota of innate science we each have inside us."


"We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance."


"Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other."


"It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past."


"He had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think."


"The nearer I approach the end the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous yet simple."
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