There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.
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It is hard for the good to suspect evil as it is hard for the bad to suspect good. CICERO Laws of Money;Money is neither evil nor good,but it only inherits the character of its owner. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It was good to get out there and start the game, ... Things started all right and then tapered off. ... KOY DETMER Does money bring you all the things you would expect to have?maybe.But with all the good it brings i... GARY F EVANS... Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so. ERIN HUNTER Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We ... WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR. We refused to be what the world want us to be- BAD. We are what we are- GOOD. And that's the way it ... NURUDEEN USHAWU War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a go... JIMMY CARTER We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hu... 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People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. TOM ROBBINS Their desperate craving for simplicity sure can create complications. And their pitiful longing for ... TOM ROBBINS Who knows how to make love stay?Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in B... TOM ROBBINS Logic only gives man what he needs...Magic gives him what he wants. TOM ROBBINS The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only ... TOM ROBBINS When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results... TOM ROBBINS To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. TOM ROBBINS The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone. TOM ROBBINS Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef TOM ROBBINS Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. TOM ROBBINS I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys... TOM ROBBINS To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth w... TOM ROBBINS The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook th... TOM ROBBINS Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective. TOM ROBBINS Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ... TOM ROBBINS There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this... TOM ROBBINS Conversation between a princess and an outlaw: "If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bai... TOM ROBBINS There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ... TOM ROBBINS If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe eve... TOM ROBBINS Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential ... TOM ROBBINS But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for... TOM ROBBINS But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play i... TOM ROBBINS Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with... TOM ROBBINS I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know. TOM ROBBINS At the typewriter you find out who you are. TOM ROBBINS