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We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.
Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.
When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.
American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.
[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.
Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.
Trump is literally the epitome of evil, all the evils of this country - be it racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia.
And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
The world is an evil place to live in. Not for those who do evil, but for those who sit back and allow evil to occur.
I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.
The sins we do, people behold with optics, Which shew them ten times more than common vices, And often multiply them.
In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.
Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.
Lo, how to conquer evil thoughts?Easy! One thing, just try -Imagine you are the ocean vast,You are the boundless sky.
Evil comes in many forms, and whether you are male or female, that doesn't matter as much as what lurks in your mind.
Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still
Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.
I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.
... Do not let the deeds and thoughts of other people confuse you; let them not prompt you to do or say anything evil!
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
If the slogan for Google is 'Don't be evil', then the slogan for Uber is 'Do a little bit of evil & don't get caught.'
The dark scary servant of all evil was on his way to rescue me. Somehow that thought failed to make me warm and fuzzy.
Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
So we can see we must substitute faith for fear, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.
For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.
If the Devil is an evil computer, who the hell programmed it? Who is the Dr. Frankestein of this abominable character?
There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.
Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.
I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.
The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.
The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
Evil can never survive, though for a time it may seem to triumph. It is only a question of our endurance and patience.
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.
None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.
Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.
God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.
Take the good with the evil, for ye all are pensioners of God, and none may choose or refuse the cup His wisdom mixeth.
Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.