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It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it… — John Kenneth Galbraith
As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world,… — Saint Augustine
What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to… — Saint Augustine
The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what is… — Pope Pius IX
Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty -… — Dag Hammarskjold
Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled… — Stephen Levine
Rama for you should mean the Path He trod, the ideal He held aloft, and the Ordinance He laid down. They are eternal and timeless. — Sathya Sai Baba
The scientists are virtually screaming from the rooftops now. The debate is over! There's no longer any debate in the scientific community about this. But… — Al Gore
The purpose of life is to create your Self anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about Who You… — Neale Donald Walsch
[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The… — Fisher Ames
Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are… — Bertrand Russell
... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence,… — Robert Parry
Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways.… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness. — Walt Whitman
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding. — Seneca the Younger
He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all,… — Thomas a Kempis
Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either… — Joseph Story
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the… — Alexander Herzen
Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with… — Arthur Koestler

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