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He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.

– The Talmud

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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

– W. H. Auden

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People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

– George Orwell

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Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

– Ambrose Bierce

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At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

– Aldous Huxley

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Pray To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy.

– Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.

– Lord Billingsley

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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.

– Orson Scott Card

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

– Shakti Gawain

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Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

– Vartan Gregorian

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It's not the rules and regulations you follow carefully that will win you favor with God but rather offering your life to Him in complete faith that His Son, Jesus Christ, conquered sin and death on your behalf and for your salvation.

– James L. Mathews

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