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If the so-called 'Christianity' now being practiced in America displays the best that world Christianity has left to offer - no one in his right… — Malcolm X
The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might… — Abraham Lincoln
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's… — Abraham Lincoln
We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it… — Abraham Lincoln
Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand… — John F. Kennedy
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt repressed or wished… — James E. Faust
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies:… — Albert Camus
Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips,… — Martin Luther
Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes. — John Dewey
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things… — Leonardo da Vinci
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end. — Michel de Montaigne
Ashcroft went on to say that our way of life is being threatened by a group of radical religious fanatics who are armed and dangerous.… — Jay Leno
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind;… — Samuel Johnson
Within all of us there is a storm. Some believe it will never end: but he who has faith in the heavens above will weather… — R. Kelly
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we deliberate it is about means and not ends. — Aristotle
God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that, realizes that he is in the midst, that takes heed to the… — F B Meyer

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