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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed. ↗

— Maimonides

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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. ↗

— Joyce Cary

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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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