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All evil in the world is the result of an imbalance between the people who benefit from shenanigans and the people who get screwed by shenanigans.

— Cory Doctorow Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts (2014)

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As someone once said, "Just because you're not interested in politics does not mean that politics won't be interested in you."

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

Things are true or they aren’t, no matter how old the person saying them happens to be.

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Doesn’t matter how old the speaker is, it’s the words that matter.

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It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

Edward Teller

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)

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