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Men had made, we believe, fundamental changes in the doctrines, purposes, and practices of the Pristine Gospel and Church. There had been an apostasy, or… — Lowell L. Bennion
You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change… — Barack Obama
We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu… — Thomas A. Edison
After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany. — James Mark Baldwin
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Perfume has a long and fascinating history and the beautifully crafted bottles used to store it over the centuries demonstrate its importance. Each has mirrored… — Judith Miller
Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what to do. It… — Robin Meyers
Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have… — Marvin Minsky
Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew… — George Will
A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put… — George William Russell
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and… — Richard Armour
It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition.… — Susan B. Anthony
For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times… — Jimmy Carter
When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries. — Al Franken
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had… — Jean Genet
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics. — Brian Greene
For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method… — Judy Collins
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime. — Rachel Cusk
It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people… — Glenn Danzig
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races… — Charles Darwin
Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which… — Stockwell Day
The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been… — Jim DeMint

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