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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.


Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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T.H. WHITE You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.
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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Every country in life is a battle field between the good & the evil forces.
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ERIN MORGENSTERN The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death,...
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BOYD K. PACKER What changes the balance between good and evil? Your actions.
JIM GENOVESE In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.
DAVID STEINDL-RAST Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
ANTHONY BURGESS One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
MARY RENAULT The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
MARIA MONTESSORI Man swings between cunningness of the mind and vulnerability of the heart! Be Aware.
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MARGARET THATCHER A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.

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ALEXANDER THE GREAT Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.
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CHARLES BAUDELAIRE One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKE This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.
HOWARD DEAN Good to evil seems evil
RAY BRADBURY Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.
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JEREMIAH BURROUGHS For every thinking and reflecting man the existence of evil is a riddle he cannot escape.
FRANçOIS PETIT The eyes of the lord are in every place seeing the evil and the good.
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C. JOYBELL C. Good and evil are the key elements that make a human.
ROSA M. BETANCES I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
CHARLES DICKENS Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY Alexander the Great slept with
'The Iliad' beneath his pillow.
Though I’ve never led a...
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NORA ROBERTS Indifference is a well that never runs dry, and as good a word for evil as was ever composed.
FERNANDO A. TORRES Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.
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JACOB BRONOWSKI Every evil begets some good.
VOLTAIRE I don't think good and evil are polarized.
SAM MENDES You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.
JIM BUTCHER Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
PLATO Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when yo...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere el...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN - Не иначе как двенадцать, - объявил и Шухов. - Солнышко н...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The fact that no one made demands on her knowledge in her special field was lucky for Simochka. Not ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN So let the reader who expects this book to be a political exposé slam its covers shut right now. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no mor...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his p...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN (Please forgive us, reader. We have once more gone astray with this rightist opportunism—this conc...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Those who floated in the ark were weightless and had weightless thoughts. They were neither hungry n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-K...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national h...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerr...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN By apeculiar coincidence, the very day when I was giving my address in Washington, ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalit...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I think, ladies and gentlemen, and I particularly address those of you who have a socialist outlook,...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN That’s all very well, but how many family doctors would you need? It simply doesn’t fit into the...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Now for the first time you were about to see people who were not your enemies. Now for the first tim...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...
ALEXANDER On the way to your success and realisation of the dreams you have to do one tiny thing - start do it...
ALEXANDER As more you're busy and overwhelmed as more free and leisure time you have.
ALEXANDER Occasionally, I don't invent something and I don't lie, sometimes there're moments when I just don't...
ALEXANDER I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and elo...
ALEXANDER Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless r...
ALEXANDER Live with the current day, otherwise someday you'll wake up and realise that all remarkable and gorg...
ALEXANDER Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that...
ALEXANDER As more busier and overwhelmed you're, as more free time you have.
ALEXANDER Facing the obstacle don't fall in depression, just reverse the problem and take a glance at it at an...
ALEXANDER Everything what you do has sense. If you don't like the world around you can draw your own, compose ...
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