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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

James Reston (1909 - ), New York Times, June 12 1968

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)

There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)

Equations are the devil's sentences.

Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)

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Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.

Jacob Braude

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931)

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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'

William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)

Results from Classic Quotes:

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.

John Randolph (1773 - 1833)

The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2