"Umpires are necessary evils." — Doug Harvey

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• He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon
• I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once… — Kevin Bacon
• The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the… — Roseanne Barr
• I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask… — Roseanne Barr
• Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had… — Joseph Addison
• There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow
• Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by… — Isaiah Berlin
• Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them… — Ambrose Bierce
• The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen. — Aeschylus
• My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man… — Aeschylus
• If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? — Boethius
• But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is… — Edmund Burke

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