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"We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens."	(Justin) Brooks Atkinson
"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."	A. Whitney Griswold
"Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin."	Aesop
"It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that."	Alan Alda
"No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness."	Alan Alda
"A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves, yet just when you open your mouth she stands there demure with that special look in her eyes. A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot."	Alan Marshall Beck
"Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones."	Albert Einstein
"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it."	Albert Einstein
"The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career."	Albert Einstein
"Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."	Alfred Bernhard Nobel
"Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another."	Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
"Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life."	Andrew Bonar Law
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."	Anna Freud
"If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement."	Antonio Gramsci
"Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness."	Athenæus
"The Islamic Republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan." [in response to George W. Bush's assertion of Iran as part of an "axis of evil"]"	Ayatullah Khamenei
"I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil."	Æschylus
"There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life."	B. J. Gupta
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Aesop	Alan Alda	Alan Marshall Beck
Albert Einstein	Aldous Leonard Huxley	Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce	Andrew Bonar Law	Anna Freud
Antonio Gramsci	Athenæus	Ayatullah Khamenei
A. Whitney Griswold	Baltasar Gracian	Benjamin Franklin
Billy Joel	Brad Moore	Buddha
B. J. Gupta	Carl Gustav Jung	Catullus
Charles Dickens	Charles Barkley	Charles Churchill
Charles Robert Darwin	Charles W. Chesnutt	Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood
Confucius	Count Maurice Maeterlink	Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold
Daniel Defoe	Daniel Patrick Moynihan	Dennis S. Brown
Dorothe Deluzy	Douglas Noel Adams	Dr. Samuel Johnson
Edmund Burke	Edward Albee	Edward Hoch
Elbert Hubbard	Eric Hoffer	Erma Louise Bombeck
Ernest Miller Hemingway	Euripides	Fred Brooks
Friedrich August von Hayek	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	Gabrid Garcia Marquez
Garrison Keillor	George	George Burns
Georges Bataille	George Jean Nathan	George Stanley McGovern
George Walker Bush	Gerald R. Ford	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Heini Arnold	Heinrich Heine	Helen Adams Keller
Henry Miller	H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky	Ingrid Bergman
Isaac Asimov	Isabel Colegate	I Ching
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacob M(orton) Braude	James Agee
James Lane Allen	Jay Leno	Jay Edward Adams
Jean de La Bruyère	Jesse Lair	Jewel
Johathan Edwards	John Andrew Holmes, Jr.	John L. Casteel
Joseph Brodsky	Joseph Conrad	Juliene Berk
Kahlil Gibran	Kim Hubbard	Koran
Kurt Herbert Alder	Laertius Diogenes	Lao-Tzu
Lawton Chiles	Lillian Hellman	Lord Billingsley
Louisa May Alcott	Louis Dembitz Brandeis	Lou Holtz
Lucan	Mandell Creighton	Manly P. Hall
Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Maria Montessori	Marquis de Sade	Martin Luther
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Mary Ellen Kelly	Maurice Chevalier
Maxim Gorky	Max Born	Max Lerner
Mignon McLaughlin	Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mort Crim	Napolean Bonaparte	Napolean Hill
Paul Aubuchon	Paul William "Bear" Bryant	Raisa M. Gorbachev
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Reinhold Niebuhr	Richard Dawkins
Richard Hofstadter	Richard Jordan	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Richard M. Mathews	Rick Moranis	Rita Mae Brown
Robert Browning	Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole
Rob Gilbert	Russell Wayne Baker	Saint Augustine
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Butler	Samuel Cunningham
Shana Alexander	Sid Ceaser	Simondes of Ceos
Sir Francis Bacon	Stephen Neill	Susanna Moodie
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead	Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno	Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Hardy	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Merton
Truman Capote	Tryon Edwards	T. S. Eliot
Victoria Lincoln	Vincent McNabb	Walter Savage Landor
William Blake	William Hazlitt	William Adams
Woody Allen	Wystan Hugh Auden	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
(Justin) Brooks Atkinson	Æschylus