Banished Quotes
89 quotes by 85 authors
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
— Vannevar Bush
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What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in…
— David Cameron
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
— Susan B. Anthony
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The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
— Anthony Gregory
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We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall…
— Herbert Hoover
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Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.
— William James
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
— Plotinus
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Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity…
— John Quincy Adams
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If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent…
— William Wardell
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You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be so? As long as Faith gives me strength I will always…
— Pier Giorgio Frassati
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To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity.…
— C.S. Lewis
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More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of…
— Michelle Alexander
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If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced - not just…
— Gordon Brown
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God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core…
— Robert Wright
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For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I…
— Pablo Picasso
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Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that is injected into…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of…
— Alan Keyes
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To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on,…
— Thomas Carlyle
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