Joanne Rowling Quotes
Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
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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'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
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We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet.
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I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He takes on a totally different life, and it was so amazing to watch him work.
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The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.
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Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.
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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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We're always told that we need to amnesty illegals to shore up Social Security. How, exactly, are people who make so little money that they don't pay income taxes going to save Social Security?
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Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.
