Pure Quotes

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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is… — Alexander Hamilton
Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their… — Jean Rostand
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have… — Mark Twain
We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or not in a… — Gustav Mahler
We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus… — Mahatma Gandhi
It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music. — Jack Valenti
I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I am against the… — Mamie Till
In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense. — Sigmund Freud
The truth is never pure and rarely simple. — Oscar Wilde
A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there… — James Madison
Some of the most serious fallacies of traditional economics have been due to confusion between optimum and equilibrium conditions; the apparent influence of Dr. Pangloss… — Sir John Richard Hicks
Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts. — Laozi
No chemical compound in the atmosphere has a worse reputation than CO2, thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by… — William Happer
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction.… — Albert Einstein
... those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork. — Henrik Svensmark
And as for other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of… — Upton Sinclair
The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to… — Samuel Johnson
This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it. — Charles Spurgeon
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because… — James A. Garfield
Grief is neither a disorder nor a healing process; it is a sign of health itself, a whole and natural gesture of love. Nor must… — Gerald May
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered… — Plutarch
The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure. — Pope Benedict XVI

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