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• After more than 700 hours of studying this subject, and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I have come to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most wicked, vicious, heartless hoaxes ever foisted upon the minds of men, or it is the most fantastic fact of history

  Josh McDowell

  Jesus, Men, Heartless

  Josh McDowell (1979). “Evidence That Demands a Verdict”, Thomas Nelson

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• The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.

  William Osler

  Wise, Art, Strong

  Sir William Osler (1963). “Aequanimitas, and Other Papers that Have Stood the Test of Time. [With an Introd. by Paul Dudley White]”

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• Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles and American institutions. It is a wicked thing either to support or oppose a man because of the creed he possesses. . . . Such a movement directly contravenes the spirit of the Constitution itself.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Religious, Men, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.358, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in keeping with the pedagogical principles of our great- grandparents, according to which children are viewed as crafty creatures, dominated by wicked drives, who invent stories and attack their innocent parents or desire them sexually. In reality, children tend to blame themselves for their parents' cruelty and to absolve the parents, whom they invariably love, of all responsibility.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Responsibility, Reality

  Alice Miller (2012). “The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness”, p.169, Anchor

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• Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.

  John Calvin

  Wisdom, Art, Truth

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• Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

  Fanny Burney

  Money, Evil, Vices

  Fanny Burney (1907). “The Early diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: with a selection from her correspondence, and from the journals of her sisters Susan and Charlotte Burney”

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• When it was seen that many of the wicked seemed quite untroubled by evil conscience ... then the idea of future suffering was advanced.

  Lewis Browne

  Ideas, Evil, Suffering

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• I have been disappointed in all my expectations of Australia, except as to its wickedness; for it is far more wicked than I have conceived it possible for any place to be, or than it is possible for me to describe to you in England.

  Henry Parkes

  Australia, Expectations, England

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• Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Wicked Person, Lovers, Common

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• If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures, it's a pleasure to let it do as it pleases. With children, this would be wicked and irresponsible, so raising children involves a lot of effort and friction. They need to be taught how to tie their shoes and multiply fractions, they need to be punished for pocketing candy in the grocery store, they need to be washed and combed and forced to clean up their rooms and say please and thank you. A cat is our relief and our reward.

  Barbara Holland

  Bullying, Children, Cat

  Barbara Holland (1989). “Secrets of the Cat: It's [sic] Lore, Legend, and Lives”

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• Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it is a monstrous and wicked evil, that filthily depraved and defileth the tongue of man.

  Jon Jones

  Lying, Men, Evil

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• At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, School, Night

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• The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Good Man, Reign

  Saint Augustine (2003). “City of God”, p.217, Penguin UK

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• Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,
  Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Divorce, Police, Society

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.1119, Oxford University Press

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• A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Principles, Pleasure

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• She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Ego, Important, World

  Patrick Rothfuss (2014). “The Slow Regard of Silent Things”, p.58, Penguin

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• A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Keys, Imagination, Mind

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1433, Barbour Publishing

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• Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?

  Philip Sidney

  Wise, Giving, Advice

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.179

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• No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Successful, Men, Evil

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• When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.

  Amelia Barr

  Men, World, May

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.67, Litres

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• As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Friendship, Morning, Shadow

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• If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.

  Sallust

  Men, Good Man, Needs

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• When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who
  are virtuous for virtue's sake.

  Sallust

  Fall, Evil, Sake

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• Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!

  Saadi

  Wickedness, Pity

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• Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

  Seneca the Younger

  Brother, Mind, Bears

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