Presented Quotes
511 quotes by 477 authors
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Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can’t be used as a totem or fetish in that way.
— Terry Eagleton
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Dad once said to me that should he pass away, if there was some way of letting me know he was going to be ok…
— Julian Lennon
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When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
— David Antin
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The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
— Stephen Gardiner
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Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families.... Defendants have presented…
— Stephen Reinhardt
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The gospel is one of harmony, unity, and agreement. It must be presented in love, and with glad tidings, by those who are calm.
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Inform yourself about animal issues, and listen to different perspectives on how to help animals. Don't latch onto the first opinion that you hear about…
— Mark Middleton
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This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the…
— Plutarch
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The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively, but nearly always…
— John Quiggin
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Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom…
— John Milton
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Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people's confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able to choose the…
— Pope John Paul II
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Our Apostolic Mandate requires from Us that We watch over the purity of the Faith and the integrity of Catholic discipline. It requires from Us…
— Pope Pius X
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In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as a consequence; whereas…
— Paul Scott
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The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid…
— Richard Selzer
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Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.
— Trofim Lysenko
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He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . . He was naturally…
— John Dryden
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Two persons have been elected to the offices of President and Vice-President exclusively by the people of ONE SECTION of the country...A clearer case of…
— John Willis Ellis
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A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a…
— Paul Keres
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The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.
— Plato
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Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from the Jews, to…
— Richard J. Evans
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