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"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."
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"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
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"The evil thing is inside, not out."
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"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"
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"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us."
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"She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil."
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"The real thing about evil, you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret."
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"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."
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"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."
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"Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again."
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"Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent."
Life
"A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride."
Enemy
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."
Evil
"The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move."
Marriage
"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."
Change
"Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male."
Civilization
"The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."
Politics
"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."
Civilization
"The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea."
Creativity
"To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others."
Hurt
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