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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

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If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old. ↗

— Martin Luther

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Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

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I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that. ↗

— Brion James

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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck. ↗

— William James

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Haste is of the Devil. ↗

— St. Jerome

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I think there are some very evil things about gentrification. ↗

— Jim McKay

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Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else. ↗

— Mencius

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