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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization. — Jules Verne
For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally… — Mahatma Gandhi
My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success… — Robert Menzies
The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around… — James Martineau
As I passed alongside it, I prayed for a future in which the peoples of the Holy Land can live together in peace and harmony… — Pope Benedict XVI
The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The individual, in order… — Jacques Ellul
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us… — Antonio Damasio
At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument. — Richard Ford
The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way that you would… — Kevin Canty
This is an instrument in the hands of the people for fighting the fascist saboteurs, because the Chilean armed forces are a guarantee of constitutionality… — Salvador Allende
Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people,… — Aristotle
A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished… — Victor Hugo
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and… — Leo Tolstoy
A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not only recognizes but… — Carol Bellamy
Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones,… — Cootie Williams
God almighty, in a few short hours we will be in battle with the enemy. We do not join battle afraid. We do not ask… — Robert Lee Wolverton
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument. — J. B. Priestley
Writing is a political instrument. — James A. Baldwin
Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world. — Alfred North Whitehead

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