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- From: offordj@wl.com (Jim Offord)
- Subject: Re: Quotations regardin The Devil
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.013515.15967@wl.com>
- Organization: Warner Lambert / Parke-Davis
- References: <1h5auqINNi0r@agate.berkeley.edu> <1h947lINN3q2@hsc.usc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:35:15 GMT
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- In article <1h947lINN3q2@hsc.usc.edu> lfreeman@hsc.usc.edu (Leny Freeman) writes:
- >In article <1h5auqINNi0r@agate.berkeley.edu> chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien) writes:
- >>Anybody have good proverbs/quotations regarding the devil?
- >
- >The only thing necessary for evil to exist is for good men to sit back
- >and do nothing
- >
- >I have no idea who said that. anyone know?
- >
- >
- >
- The formulation that I have seen(and prefer) is:
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- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men
- should do nothing.
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- --
- Dr. Jim Offord |Any sufficiently advanced technology
- Dept. of Biotechnology |is indistinguishable from magic.
- Parke-Davis | Arthur Clarke's Third Law
- offordj@wl.com |Opinions? Those babies are all mine.
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