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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. — Susan B. Anthony
The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us,… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages:… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of… — Alexander Hamilton
You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful. — Francis Spellman
The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last for ages. In… — Ernst Haeckel
The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity and… — Richard Doll
It is by means of these that we attain perfect love, through the grace and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be glory… — John Cassian
Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel was never so… — Walter J. Phillips
Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the… — Henry Ford
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite… — Winston Churchill
Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that -… — Richie Havens
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of… — Thomas A. Edison
A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't… — Marge Piercy
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a… — Jacques Barzun
God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man,… — Francis Bacon
The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades… — Francois Fenelon
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty — James Anthony Froude
It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is… — Samuel Smiles
It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in… — George Bernard Shaw
Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than… — P.G. Wodehouse

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