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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

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If evil exists its to be found in our fears.

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For her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their...more

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It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

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Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths ...more

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Men who have nothing to lose never give a thought for eternal life.

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In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking...more

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That's who I am, a man who has been both good and evil throughout his life. pg 14

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Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge, with paradise on the right and, on the left, a series of cir...more

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So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

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You're not trying to find the answer to a question, you're simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe: that everyone is evil.

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And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yoursel...more

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...she was betting on the fact that people were basically good, despite all the Evil in the world.

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I lost the most precious thing a man can have: my faith in my fellow man. I laughed and I wept at God's irony, at the absurd way he had chosen to demo...more