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How do we get our values so mixed up? We look for shortcuts to happiness. Our lust for immediate pleasure prompts us to think of evil as good.

How do we get our values so mixed up? We look for shortcuts to happiness. Our lust for immediate pleasure prompts us to think of evil as good.
– Billy Graham

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  3. Evil is appealing, evil is attractive, evil is stylish. However, evil is still evil and it deserves to be treated just like that. – Lakshya Bharadwaj
  4. Oh she’s alright it’s just that – I don’t want to get mixed up with anyone in the house. I don’t want to get mixed up at all with anybody anymore. – Lynne Reid Banks
  5. It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. – Marcel Proust
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  7. There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals. – John Updike
  8. Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil. – Amit Abraham
  9. The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins. – Thomas Jefferson
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  13. When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know it is dead wrong. – Billy Graham
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  22. Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil with evil. – Billy Graham
  23. Evil is present to cleverly disguise itself as good. Evil is present to control and deceive us. – Billy Graham
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  40. Purists don’t take shortcuts. For me, the vision is more important than anything. – Sharad Vivek Sagar

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