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That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by… — Tycho Brahe
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling… — Diogenes
I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held. — Judy Woodruff
The problem is, is the White House and this administration have created a war against police officers in this country, with their allegations and false… — Kimberly Guilfoyle
'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate at… — Adela Popescu
Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were… — Neal Stephenson
My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually… — Yelawolf
To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good,… — Mahatma Gandhi
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself — Baron de Montesquieu
The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence. — Thomas Browne
One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never… — Margaret Kennedy
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down… — Eric Hoffer
I abused my body so much throughout my career that I am literally held together by glue. The stuff I took thickens the bones and… — Sylvester Stallone
Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds… — Henri Matisse
When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of… — William Styron
The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to… — Ludwig von Mises
For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of… — Kathe Kollwitz
Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic… — Roger Kimball
The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded… — Pope Paul VI
It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved… — Clement Greenberg

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