"No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes."

Contrast, Light, Shadow, Darkness, Hope

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"No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes."

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"In contrast to what most prosecutors do, we try to treat all individuals with complete fairness. We do not go out and hold press conferences and the like."

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"If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?"

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"There would be no cloud-nine days without rock-bottom moments left below."

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"The weaknesses of the wise are better than the strengths of fools."

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"Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently suffered."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn't turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that (Hell) contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Then we shan't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies."

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"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."

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"Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child."

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"Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them."

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