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There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity… — Godfried Danneels
Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth. — Bertrand Russell
Dresden? There is not such a place any longer." "I want to point out, that besides Essen, we never actually considered any particular industrial sites… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord"… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A species may eat a particular bacterium, phytoplankton, smaller fish, or plant in an area. Lacking a predator, these species/populations will overgrow and alter the… — Thom Hartmann
Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not… — Stanislaw Lem
Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole… — Robert Walpole
Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and… — Kenneth Grahame
Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health. — Swami Vivekananda
True negotiation takes place when each side respects the other, and their point of view, and enters into the discussion positively. If you are determined… — Tony Buzan
But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art… — Marcus Aurelius
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without… — Reverend Malcolm Boyd
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till… — Samuel Johnson
I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and… — Ellen Ochoa
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular:… — William Strunk, Jr.
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If someone were to ask me whether I believed in God, or saw God, or had a particular relationship with God, I would reply that… — Robert Fulghum
It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have… — Julian Sanchez
The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli. — Johannes Peter Muller
I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense… — Sela Ward
We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold… — Greg Ginn
We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure. — Leo Tolstoy
Now when I hear about someone's illness, no matter what dire their predicament seems to be, I know that if they're willing to do the… — Louise Hay
There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and… — Steve Lacy
As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town… — Storm Jameson

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