"Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Unknown, Source on evil   

"Evil spelled backward is live."

Unknown, Source on evil
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"After listening to a lecture on evolution by a science professor, a student wrote a poem and titled it The Amazing Professor. The poem read: Once I was a tadpole when I began to begin. Then I was a frog with my tail tucked in. Next I was a monkey on a coconut tree. Now I am a doctor with a Ph.D."

Unknown, Source on evolution   

"Evolution has developed man to such a high degree that he builds zoos to keep his ancestors in cages."

Unknown, Source on evolution
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"American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams."

Iyer, Pico on america
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"Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew."

Apollinaire, Guillaume on fear
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"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

Whitman, Walt on loneliness
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"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."

Whitman, Walt on enemies
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"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on questions
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"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."

Barrie, Sir James M. on youth
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"I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way."

Penney, J. C. (James Cash) on adversity
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"Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours."

Penney, J. C. (James Cash) on genius
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"Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk."

Penney, J. C. (James Cash) on goals
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"I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties."

Penney, J. C. (James Cash) on problems
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"Every business is built on friendship."

Penney, J. C. (James Cash) on business
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"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."

Burroughs, William S. on desperation
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"Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?"

Burroughs, William S. on disease   

"There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks."

Burroughs, William S. on dream
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"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."

Burroughs, William S. on drugs
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"The face of evil is always the face of total need."

Burroughs, William S. on evil
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"I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous."

Burroughs, William S. on family   

"Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination."

Burroughs, William S. on games
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"America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting."

Burroughs, William S. on america
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"I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events."

Burroughs, William S. on god
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"In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality."

Burroughs, William S. on grief   

"Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to."

Burroughs, William S. on humility   

"Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my good big centipede! If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race."

Burroughs, William S. on insects   

"Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief... Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louver! A bas l Originality, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol -- pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight."

Burroughs, William S. on inspiration   

"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has."

Burroughs, William S. on intervention   

"Language is a virus from outer space."

Burroughs, William S. on language
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"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact."

Burroughs, William S. on art
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"Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective."

Burroughs, William S. on magic
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"Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means."

Burroughs, William S. on methods
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"The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window."

Burroughs, William S. on nonviolence   

"There is the pleasurable orgasm, like a rising sales graph, and there is the unpleasurable orgasm, slumping ominously like the Dow Jones in 1929."

Burroughs, William S. on orgasm   

"Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it creative observation. Creative viewing."

Burroughs, William S. on perception
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"No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water."

Burroughs, William S. on physics   

"A functioning police state needs no police."

Burroughs, William S. on police
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"They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work."

Burroughs, William S. on science   

"Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo -- and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way."

Burroughs, William S. on sex