Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.


Frank Zappa

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People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
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There is no denying that there is evil in this world but the light will always conquer the darkness.
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A stud is born! [Stanford]
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Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
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We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
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Only Evil in the world is the one inside your mind.
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I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.
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I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Good to evil seems evil
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Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.
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It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.
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There is no one who is completely evil as to lack some goodness in him.
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More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.
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There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
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Never think taking a life is easy. Do that and in a way they win.
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We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.
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There was the kind of silence there might have been on the day before Creation.
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The source of evil is desire, greed, and anger.
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Greed and superstition are the parents of all evil.
JOSEPH FARAHANY
I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.
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Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkn...
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I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.
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Behind every villain is a truth, whether it be perceived or actual.
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Others are not born bad or good... and neither are people, by the way.
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The problem in todays world is that people lack trust in goodness.
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Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
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Just because our opinions on what is right are different, doesn’t make me evil.
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I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and ...
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We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see w...
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For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
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If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody'...
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I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your...
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YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been adde...
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I'm fascinated by simple joy.
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We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't...
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What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink...
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I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
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I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-...
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's plat...
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Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusiv...
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Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.
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Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to...
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The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelie...
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When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that expla...
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On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss ...
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual ...
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The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
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I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type...
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... ...
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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the senten...
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