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Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who…
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Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and…
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The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully…
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The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond…
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Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely…
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I believe it is conceded that, notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may, without impropriety, kiss his wife…
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It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife…
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What single organization has done more for the orphan than the Catholic Church? What one, through hospital and asylum, more for the…
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Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial…
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He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher…
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The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and…
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A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race…
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It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of…
— Henry George
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The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result…
— Italo Calvino
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Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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We are not masochists - the cross is not an end in itself; it is for glory. We Christians are not looking…
— Unknown Author
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The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed…
— John T. Flynn
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Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most…
— Michael Chekhov
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For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to…
— Rowan Williams
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If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there…
— E. M. Forster
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The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its…
— Sri Aurobindo
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We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst…
— Roland Allen
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Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and…
— Umar
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