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- Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to…
- The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary…
- Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. — Francis of Assisi
- In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase… — Charles Babbage
- It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and… — Johann Sebastian Bach
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in… — Lord Acton
- Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a… — Ansel Adams
- I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello. — Roger Bannister
- Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. — John Adams
- The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate,… — John Adams
- My body is an instrument for me to use. — Emmanuelle Beart