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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
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Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.


Hesiod
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There's a story in 'Kabu Kabu' called 'Bakasi Man' where I got to explore the mind of a 'bad man.' It was fun.
Nnedi Okorafor
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I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived.
Muhammad Ali
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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
William Butler Yeats
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I'm okay with having bad dance moves.


Katy Perry
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Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell
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I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.


Adrian Lyne
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.


Plautus
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I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.
Daniel Okrent
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Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
Joseph Heller
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For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.


Laura Esquivel
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I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.


Hulk Hogan
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As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.
George R. R. Martin
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Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
David Seabury
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Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.
Laura Schlessinger
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.


Zubin Mehta
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It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.
Prince Andrew
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.


Theodore Roosevelt
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