Spheres Quotes

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What we are witnessing at the moment is a rearrangement of the world in an intermediate stage; the change is not in the use of… — Jacques Ellul
I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the… — George Will
If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their interests are allowed… — Peter Singer
We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere of moral concern;… — Peter Singer
This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities.… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows. Henceforth be mine a life of action and reality! I will… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Alliances are crucial to success in the political sphere. However, if we are to approach other organizations to propose alliances for the public good, we… — Arthur Curley
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light,… — Edgar Mitchell
The forces, movements, and energies that today we call religious, spiritual, or faith-based have related through the ages in diverse ways to the spheres of… — Martin E. Marty
Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole… — James Madison
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being… — Benjamin Franklin
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock… — George Steiner
The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. — James Madison
It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject falling within the… — James Madison
[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own… — Thomas Jefferson
From the rocket we can see the huge sphere of the planet in one or another phase of the Moon. We can see how the… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the Earth, so that… — Nicolaus Copernicus
The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the… — Nicolaus Copernicus
People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard… — Paul McCartney

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