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...These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional "victims" who expect to be free from any offense, and they… — Gad Saad
Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round in fear lest… — Swami Vivekananda
Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too… — Lactantius
We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those… — Alexander McCall Smith
My witness is, that those who are honoured of their Lord in public, have usually to endure a secret chastening, or to carry a peculiar… — Charles Spurgeon
A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our… — James Madison
A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce… — Thomas Aquinas
We possess art lest we perish of the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Battle not with Hello Kitty lest ye become Hello Kitty; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you with huge eyes… — Friedrich Nietzsche
And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him… — Khalil Gibran
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing… — John Calvin
All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the… — Countee Cullen
The Elf and the Dormouse UNDER a toadstool crept a wee Elf, Out of the rain to shelter himself. Under the toadstool, sound asleep, Sat… — Oliver Herford
We must by every means humble our hearts and subdue our proud intellect, lest we should be like the contemporaries of the prophets, who looked… — John of Kronstadt
Do not delay in coming to grace, but hasten, lest the robber outstrip you, lest the adulterer pass you by, lest the insatiate be satisfied… — Gregory of Nazianzus
We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask it, we shall… — Ambrose
We must follow the ways of the Lord, and take heed to our own ways, lest they lead us into sin. One can take heed… — Ambrose
A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature. — Saint John Chrysostom
... the Apostle Paul says that we are sealed in the Spirit (cf. Eph. 1:13); since we have in the Son the image of the… — Ambrose
Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner peace and stillness… — Lorenzo Scupoli

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