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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
Author:
Orville Wright
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Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.
Author:
Marie Windsor
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The devil made me do it.
Author:
Flip Wilson
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.
Author:
George Whitefield
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God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
Author:
Andre Weil
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A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
Author:
John Webster
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What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
Author:
Alan Watts
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Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn't handle it.
Author:
Rick Wakeman
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Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
Author:
Tom Waits
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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
Author:
Voltaire
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What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
Author:
George Villiers
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But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
Author:
Aiden Tozer
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When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.
Author:
Dan Totheroh
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For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
Author:
Guillermo Toro
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But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.
Author:
Guillermo Toro
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Anything new is always considered the devil's tool.
Author:
Rip Torn
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Marketing is the devil.
Author:
Billy Thornton
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As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.
Author:
Kerry Thornley
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The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
Author:
Francis Thompson
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Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
Author:
Charles Talleyrand
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In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
Author:
Billy Sunday
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God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.
Author:
Julius Streicher
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
Author:
Logan Smith
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I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
Author:
Jada Smith
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I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
Author:
Michelle Shocked
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.
Author:
Michael Servetus
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Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
Author:
Yahoo Serious
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Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.
Author:
Harry Segall
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Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.
Author:
Richard Savage
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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Author:
George Santayana
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
Author:
Carlos Santana
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There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.
Author:
Kid Rock
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That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.
Author:
Kid Rock
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Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
Author:
Branch Rickey
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
Author:
Branch Rickey
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I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
Author:
Charles Richter
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Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
Author:
Charles Richter
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I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.
Author:
Little Richard
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I've never seen the devil create music.
Author:
Little Richard
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People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
Author:
Anne Rice
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Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.
Author:
Anne Rice
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I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.
Author:
Anne Rice
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Author:
Francois Rabelais
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The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.
Author:
Anthony Price
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If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.
Author:
Lisa Presley
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within.
Author:
Pope Paul VI
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It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.
Author:
Kerry Packer
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This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
Author:
Origen
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I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.
Author:
Charles Olson
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Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.
Author:
Lord Nelson
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
Author:
Gabriele Nanni
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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Author:
Dwight Moody
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
Author:
Dan Millman
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Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.
Author:
Freddie Mercury
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
Author:
Sam Mendes
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
Author:
H. Mencken
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.
Author:
Eric Massa
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A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
Author:
Walter Martin
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In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
Author:
Don Marquis
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Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.
Author:
Marc Maron
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When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.
Author:
Marc Maron
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If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
Author:
Bob Marley
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Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
Author:
Robert Mapplethorpe
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Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.
Author:
Robert Mapplethorpe
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We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.
Author:
Norman Mailer
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Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
Author:
Norman Mailer
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I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
Author:
Ken MacLeod
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If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
Author:
Martin Luther
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For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Author:
Martin Luther
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You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!
Author:
Jerry Lewis
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Author:
C. Lewis
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The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
Author:
C. Lewis
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Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.
Author:
Gotthold Lessing
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The devil's name is dullness.
Author:
Robert Lee
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The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
Author:
Johann Lavater
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With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.
Author:
John Larson
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Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
Author:
Milan Kundera
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It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
Author:
Ronald Knox
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The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
Author:
Stephen King
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If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.
Author:
John Kellogg
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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Author:
Helen Keller
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I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.
Author:
Raul Julia
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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
Author:
Pamela Johnson
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
Author:
St. Jerome
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Haste is of the Devil.
Author:
St. Jerome
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
Author:
St. Jerome
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So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.
Author:
Warren Jeffs
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It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God.
Author:
Warren Jeffs
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
Author:
William James
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
Author:
Mahalia Jackson
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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
Author:
William Inge
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The devil is compromise.
Author:
Henrik Ibsen
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Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
Author:
E. Hoffmann
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Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.
Author:
Benny Hinn
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Why should the Devil have all the good tunes?
Author:
Rowland Hill
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
Author:
George Herbert
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
Author:
Vance Havner
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You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.
Author:
Debbie Harry
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Gossip is the Devil's radio.
Author:
George Harrison
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No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
Author:
Learned Hand
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Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
Author:
Taylor Hackford
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The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.
Author:
Taylor Hackford
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This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.
Author:
Taylor Hackford
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The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.
Author:
William Gurnall
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Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil's snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil's snare.
Author:
Rupert Grint
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
Author:
Samuel Gompers
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If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.
Author:
Jonah Goldberg
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Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks.
Author:
David Garrick
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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
Author:
James Garfield
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One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
Author:
John Gardner
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
Author:
John Galbraith
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And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business.
Author:
Christopher Gadsden
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With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
Author:
R. Fuller
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Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
Author:
Gustave Flaubert
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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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If it wasn't for the devil, we wouldn't be here, would we?
Author:
Brad Dourif
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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Author:
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.
Author:
Cameron Diaz
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'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
Author:
Daniel Defoe
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Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.
Author:
Rebecca Davis
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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Author:
Charles Darwin
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I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
Author:
Aleister Crowley
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Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
Author:
Sean Connery
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I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having.
Author:
Robbie Coltrane
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Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
Author:
Samuel Coleridge
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Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
Author:
Camille Claudel
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
Author:
Lydia Child
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Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
Author:
C. Cherryh
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I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.
Author:
Jim Carrey
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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
Author:
Maria Callas
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
Author:
Gabriel Byrne
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Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
Author:
Eric Butterworth
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
Author:
Gary Busey
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I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.
Author:
Christie Brinkley
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Why doesn't that Devil take me with him? It would be much better with him than it is here.
Author:
Eva Braun
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First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.
Author:
Edward Bond
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
Author:
Jose Bergamin
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.
Author:
Hans Bender
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A church debt is the devil's salary.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.
Author:
Michael Bay
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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
Author:
Anne Baxter
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To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
Author:
Pearl Bailey
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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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They give themselves to God when the Devil will no longer have them.
Author:
Sophie Arnould
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When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
Author:
Ludovico Ariosto
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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
Author:
Jean Anouilh
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I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.
Author:
Red Adair
