Namely Quotes
321 quotes by 269 authors
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Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before God, are themselves…
— Noah Feldman
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He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
— Socrates
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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were…
— Walter Isaacson
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Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding…
— Aristotle
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... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may…
— Plato
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I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the…
— Unknown Author
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special…
— Hippocrates
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The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections…
— Charles Darwin
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
— Charles Darwin
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The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or…
— Charles Darwin
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The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to…
— A. V. Dicey
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The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary…
— Noam Chomsky
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My duty as a member of the Council of the Twelve is to protect what is most unique about the LDS church, namely the authority…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the supreme Law-giver, on…
— Pope Leo XIII
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What I have related is sufficient for establishing the main principle, namely, that the heat which disappears in the conversion of water into vapour, is…
— Joseph Black
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The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy…
— Marsilio Ficino
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I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose…
— Murray Rothbard
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. . . it is interesting to note that the original problem that started my research is still outstanding - namely the problem of planning…
— George Dantzig
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