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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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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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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Evil changes everybody!
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A questioner asks: If human nature is evil, then where do ritual and rightness come from? I reply: ritual and rightness are always created by the conscious activity of the sages.
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Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists.
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Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil.
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The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do.
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A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results.
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Loving a thing is shallow, only if you don't deeply appreciate its emotional value.
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Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be.
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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.
