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Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong… — Thomas Jefferson
By harmony all phenomena are formed and sustained. There is a scientific statement to the effect that this earth is a vast harmonic wave system… — Corinne Heline
As Christ was born of the Virgin's womb, so must He be spiritually formed in our hearts. As He died for sin, so must we… — George Whitefield
Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as… — J F C Fuller
And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs:… — Janet Morris
All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the… — Alexander Trocchi
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information… — David Foster Wallace
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the… — Philip Roth
The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested, and expressed. What… — Anthony Kennedy
It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts. — John Maurice Clark
It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be… — Charles Darwin
I'm on the record as saying things like I think it's important for people to understand their Bible stories, not because I'm an advocate of… — Julia Gillard
The idea that each individual has intrinsic, God-given value and is of infinite worth quite apart from any social contribution - an idea most pagans… — Elaine Pagels
Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other… — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part… — Abraham Lincoln
It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The Rosary mystically transports us to Mary's side as she is busy watching over the human growth of Christ in the home of Nazareth. This… — Pope John Paul II
The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine "We" is the… — Pope John Paul II
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and… — James Monroe
The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would… — Thomas Jefferson
There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the authoritative origin and… — James Madison
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it… — Alexander Hamilton
I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed to… — George Washington
Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established. — Thomas Jefferson
No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words,… — George Washington

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