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For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
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If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
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Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is "continuous", and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the innate discreteness of the digital computer.
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
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The editing process is a necessary evil. I can write until the cows come home but it is all garbage until it gets edited.
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A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
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I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with other intelligences: we could see what role, if any, religion plays in their development. I think that religion may be some random by-product of mammalian reproduction. If that's true, would non-mammalian aliens have a religion?
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Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?
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The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered a crisis requiring emergency measures. It is a matter of will and priorities, not a matter of resources.
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the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.
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Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.
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I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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A lot of auditions are not fun; they're just a necessary evil, and, if you're lucky, you have a few moments that are fun.
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Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.
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I believe you can divide the people in to two basic groups, those who believe government is a necessary good and those who believe it is a necessary evil, those who want government to take care of them, those who want government to leave them alone.
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I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.
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Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.
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For me, Spotify is not even a necessary evil. It helps me do what I want to do.
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Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers
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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
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I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.
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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
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Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.
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The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
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