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A Satanist practices the motto, If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other! Let no wrong go unredressed.

Anton Szandor LaVey

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I never met a person who loved everybody I didn't dislike.
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Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.
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