Expounded Quotes
20 quotes by 16 authors
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Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and…
— Frederick Buechner
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We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known…
— Daniel Tammet
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UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature…
— Ambrose Bierce
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SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I now believe that the universe was brought into existence by an infinite Intelligence. I believe that this universe's intricate laws manifest what scientists have…
— Antony Flew
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Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to the cloud of…
— Swami Vivekananda
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God’s Word, when rightly expounded, is medicinal for a whole host of spiritual diseases.
— Joel Beeke
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Pantaenus was one of these and is said to have gone to India. It is reported that among persons there who knew of Christ, he…
— Eusebius
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Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate…
— Max Bill
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After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.
— Luther Standing Bear
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Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the…
— James P. Cannon
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Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth;…
— Wendell Berry
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...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
— Marquis de Sade
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When my father, Ronald Reagan, was running for president in 1980, my mother, Nancy, traveled with him on the campaign trail, but she did not…
— Patti Davis
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SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this…
— Ambrose Bierce
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OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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History seems not so much a record of past events, more a catalogue of preferred beliefs expounded by people who have a vested interest.
— Anthony Storr
Who Wrote These Expounded Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 20 Expounded Quotes as follows: