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Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation… — Mikhail Bakunin
There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure. — Andre Previn
This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities.… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will… — Mahatma Gandhi
Is it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right… — Billy Graham
Promptings for us to do good come from the Holy Ghost. These promptings nudge us further along the straight and narrow path of discipleship. The… — Neal A. Maxwell
One sure way we can determine whether we are on the strait and narrow path is that we will possess the Spirit of the Lord… — Ezra Taft Benson
In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow — Richard Wagner
Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. — William Blake
They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's. — A. E. Housman
The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a… — Immanuel Wallerstein
All of us must walk the same strait and narrow path, know the same kind of experiences as those we would seek to lead and… — Neal A. Maxwell
But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window,… — Charles Dickens
The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong… — Robert Southwell
How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper. — Khalil Gibran
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to… — Albert Einstein
It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is… — Alexander Hamilton
Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he… — Albert Einstein
And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels and, with a… — Unknown Author
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to… — Eduard Suess
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers… — Nadine Gordimer
To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has… — James Russell Lowell
It followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on the light side, and when we entered the shadow side, it disappeared completely.… — Unknown Author
I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state.… — Albert Einstein

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