Established Quotes
1014 quotes by 827 authors
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Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.
— Blaise Pascal
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There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and…
— Raymond E. Feist
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Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As…
— Daniel J. Siegel
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To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.
— Harry S. Truman
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The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is…
— Mark Twain
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The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the…
— James Madison
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Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as…
— Martin Luther
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
— Edward de Bono
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Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our…
— Karl Popper
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The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by…
— Jacques Monod
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As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of…
— Louis Pasteur
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I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which…
— Galileo Galilei
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Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful…
— Al Gore
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These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and the organic body.…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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Leadership must be established from the top down.
— Sam Nunn
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Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.
— John Quincy Adams
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