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Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and blushed." That… — Ravi Zacharias
If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow… — Wendell Berry
The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into… — Wendell Berry
In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is… — Wendell Berry
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it. — Abraham Lincoln
The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary.… — Howard Zinn
I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on… — Milton Friedman
The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles. It's an attempt… — Mark Levin
Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is… — Noam Chomsky
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of… — Barbara Mertz
The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From… — Terry Goodkind
The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itselfâ€”not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were designed by an… — Michael Behe
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law. — Fulton J. Sheen
The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy. — Noam Chomsky
The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed… — Emile M. Cioran
Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies they believe destructive… — Howard Zinn
Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys… — Theodor Adorno
True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen… — E. O. Wilson
These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions… — R A Salvatore
[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity — Carl von Clausewitz

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