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When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from… — Horace Bushnell
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it… — Bernard of Clairvaux
For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it’s when we’re closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus… — Chang-Rae Lee
Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world.… — Roger Bacon
Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make… — Frederic Bastiat
Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so. — Benjamin Franklin
The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a… — George Washington
How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it… — Orson Scott Card
The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also,… — James Madison
Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression. — James Madison
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and… — Daniel Defoe
Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in… — John Milton
The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to… — Carl Jung
At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a… — Carl Jung
Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl… — Erich Fromm
Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and… — William James
A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of individuals, the prevailing… — Herbert Marcuse
As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they… — Karl Marx
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of… — Hannah Arendt
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the… — Hannah Arendt
The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility… — Jacques Derrida
There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in… — Unknown Author
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped… — George H. W. Bush
When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations… — Sol LeWitt

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