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She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. — Agatha Christie
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all… — Thomas Jefferson
Could the peaceable principle of the Quakers be universally established, arms and the art of war would be wholly extirpated: But we live not in… — Thomas Paine
Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has… — John Burroughs
Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of… — Herbert Marcuse
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established — Confucius
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle
The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order. — Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student… — Rebecca Solnit
We are sometimes told that we are not a biblical church. We are a biblical church. This wonderful testament of the Old World, this great… — Gordon B. Hinckley
A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions,… — Michel Foucault
Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception,… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the… — Margaret Mead
The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established… — Charles Dickens
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our… — Baron de Montesquieu
The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictatorâ€”computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality,… — Gilles Deleuze
In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night-- the restrictions, rules, and guidelines-- was born of an… — Robin Jones Gunn
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation. — Benjamin Disraeli
There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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