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Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered… — Robert Winston
In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries where freedom of… — Jimmy Carter
It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and… — Pope John Paul II
The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at… — Ludwig von Mises
If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the… — James A. Baldwin
To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field… — Thomas Kuhn
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of… — William Stanley Jevons
The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom. — Georg Cantor
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo… — Richard Dawkins
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. — Richard Dawkins
Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the… — Benjamin Franklin
The laughter in response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse. And that is precisely the double standard of atheism! It is… — Ravi Zacharias
If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to… — Anton Chekhov
The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along… — Stephen Batchelor
I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are… — Brigid Brophy
Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance… — George Santayana
For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth… — Anthony Burgess
We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of… — Bruce Alberts
The really tough choices...don't center upon right versus wrong. They involve right versus right. They are genuine dilemmas precisely because each side is firmly rooted… — Rushworth Kidder

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