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Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?Â That… — John Quincy Adams
Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to… — Booker T. Washington
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports… — V.S. Naipaul
The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted ('deformed'), and can be restored through God's grace. The… — Carl Jung
Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them… — Albert Bandura
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the… — William James
Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience,… — Max Horkheimer
Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism — Jurgen Habermas
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says… — Michel Foucault
It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching… — Michel Foucault
Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a… — Michel Foucault
Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex… — Vannevar Bush
There is an energy within... pure strength... the energy of the person which is put in different forms, in different shapes... once we discover that… — Katherine Dunham
The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms. — Piet Mondrian
We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish… — Mark Rothko
I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at… — John le Carre
While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that… — Emanuel Lasker
We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
All emerge from that One Whose Being is ever present and Whose Life, robed in numberless forms, is manifest throughout all creation. Creation is the… — Ernest Holmes
But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a… — Amos Oz

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