Norman Angell (Sir Ralph Norman Angell) Quotes
The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.
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I don't believe in one ideal beauty.
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I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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I don't think fashion is evil.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.
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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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My ideal Valentine's Day is spending it with someone you are in love with and for that someone to make you feel loved and appreciated.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar.
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The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.
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The greatest evil is physical pain.
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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
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The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.
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Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured.
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False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
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Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?
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The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of brow-beating triteness.
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The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.
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The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.
