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The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very thing that we… — Robert Green Ingersoll
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model. — Seneca the Younger
According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively… — Bill McKibben
A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not. — John Stott
PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great… — Ambrose Bierce
Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive. — Paulo Coelho
In the northern hemisphere, always dressing according to the season: bare arms in spring (however cold it is) and woolen jacket in winter (however hot… — Paulo Coelho
[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore,… — Thomas Hutchinson
Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be exercised… — James Madison
Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies… — Alexander Hamilton
As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that each… — James Madison
We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . . This right can… — James Madison
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood… — Oliver Ellsworth
I think that today, more so than ever, corporate responsibility is the best strategic as well as financial path that most businesses can follow. For… — Jeffrey Hollender
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it… — Elwyn Brooks White
It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect… — Franz Boas
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man,… — Desiderius Erasmus
The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain… — Thomas Jefferson
[T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of… — Alexander Hamilton
You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not… — Unknown Author
Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of… — Wallace Pratt
People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly feel you have… — Rajeev Shukla
According to Miller, Pharisee Judaism is not a religion at all, but a secret society posing as a religion, a "sect with Judaism as a… — Edith Starr Miller

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