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People often find it easier to refute a fake extreme opponent than a more cautious real one, so they knock down the straw man instead.… — Madsen Pirie
To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than… — Albert Schweitzer
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society. — Eric Hoffer
In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better. — Jennifer Egan
It appears that a simple rule, of something adhering to another similar idea, repeated, leads to stabilities. This seems to be a function of relational… — Cecil Balmond
We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or… — Jerry Lawler
I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only… — Brother Lawrence
Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that can be found… — Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat. — David Quammen
There's a great freedom of forms and intonations in Luigi Fontanella's poetry. He doesn't take a strong formal stand; his poetry entertains moments of nearly… — Giovanni Raboni
Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence… — Abraham Kuyper
We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence,… — Satish Kumar
To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys.... Whenever the pillars… — Jedidiah Morse
To read great books does not mean one becomes â€˜bookishâ€™; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of… — John Cowper Powys
There are various art forms we may or may not have talent for, may or may not have time for, and we may or may… — Edith Schaeffer
Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security. — Lawrence Kushner
Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all… — Cees Nooteboom
Democrtitus, in the fifth century B.C. had declared that all the world was composed of only two elements: atomes and the void. This reduction of… — Leonard Shlain

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