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en He is not a demon, though surely his act was demonic. Mr. McVeigh could very easily be considered the boy next door, and that is what is so serious about it. ... He is everyman.

en How banal, yet irrefutable, is the assertion that [a person] is a mixture of the 'angelic' and the 'demonic.' ... A true politician... can be neither... 'an angel' nor 'a demon... .' [Politicians] cannot be so if [they are] to... negotiate with courage and skill on the razor's edge between victory and defeat, life and death.
  Milovan Djilas

en Then those (ships) that glide easily, / Then those (angels who) distribute blessings by Our command; / What you are threatened with is most surely true, / And the judgment must most surely come about.

en If Tim McVeigh is such a monster, why didn't he shoot the cop when he pulled him over? ... ...if McVeigh had done such a dastardly deed that's what he would have done.

en Everyman's friend is everyman's fool.

en Carnival took the myth out of cruising. We took what some considered elitist and made it an everyman vacation. So why not do the same with wine? The beverage of choice for most Americans is still beer, but we want to create an awareness that wine is not just for the snooty or the snobbish.

en These realities are clearly connected. There is violence, there is death and tremendous suffering. There is also a person at the center whom you will not be able to dismiss easily as a monster or a demon, who could be your brother, your son, your grandson.

en Pex Tufvesson was known for being a good listener.

en I had to wonder if men were so blind by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.

en There was a demon named 'Vala' whom Indra had killed. Indra was able to kill this dreaded demon only because he had attained divine powers by practicing self- restraint.

en The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.
  Norman O. Brown

en Not necessity, not desire /no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything /health, food, a place to live, entertainment /they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

en It deserves to be considered, whether the want of that which can never be gained, may not easily be endured
  Samuel Johnson

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en Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
  Samuel Johnson

en Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.
  William Goldman

en What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


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