[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
I'd slept with Ranger! Not sexually, of course. But I'd been in his bed. And then there was the evil shower gel.… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
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I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
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Prayer is the most important activity a born-again Christian can perform. It should head your list of priorities, for certainly the world… — Chuck Smith Copy Share Image
My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a… — Mackenzie Phillips Copy Share Image
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Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
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The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
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Our fundamental sin is that we place ourselves in the position of God and divide the world between what we judge to… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word .… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
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I've done a few interviews where I realized that 9/11 was the ultimate home invasion, not to be glib about it. You… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
What compelled me about the story of Chernobyl more than anything else was something very universal. Yes, Chernobyl happened because in many… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People are fascinated by evil because its mysterious and it doesnt seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you… — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
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![“[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good.” quote by Moderata Fonte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/580/moderata-fonte-42110_adam_i-t-was-with-a-good-end-in-mind-that-of_2691016.jpg)
