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- Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers… — Charles Spurgeon
- Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. — Agnes Repplier
- Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own… — Arthur Eddington
- We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. — Henry David Thoreau
- It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where… — Efim Geller
- My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous… — Adrienne Rich
- I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive. — Rachel Hunter
- My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am… — Louise Bourgeois
- The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight. — Calvin Seerveld
- It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness — Adrienne Rich
- John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged… — Murray Rothbard