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evil statesmen statesmanship
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. Charles Caleb Colton
evil choices goods
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
evil decision choices
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
evil growth rapids
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.
evil giving decision
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.
evil unhappy ends
Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning. Charles Dickens
evil hatred debt
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
evil wells decided
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. Charles Simmons
evil confusion people
We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from. Charles Stanley
avalanches
You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels. David Gerrold
avalanches snowflake individual
Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche? Franz Wright
avalanches culture madness
Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. Milan Kundera
avalanches needs snowflake
The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche. Jon Ronson
avalanches causes creation
Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation? Victor Hugo
avalanches small-things
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things. Vernor Vinge
pebbles moonlight caught
I caught a pebble in the moonlight. David Gemmell
pebbles rolling-along grain
You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else. Joseph Joubert
pebbles juxtaposition aliens
Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition. Learned Hand
pebbles film sand
The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made. Robert Wise
pebbles female lovers
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.