"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a……" — Ezra Pound

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• The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon,… — John Stuart Mill
• Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment;… — Henry Steele Commager
• If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of… — Aristotle
• The Divine glory is an object only worthy of attention; and to display his holy character, was the design of… — Unknown Author
• Inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well as in idea as in fact, the family must necessarily have… — Pope Leo XIII
• Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident… — Brooke Westcott
• Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is… — Albert Pike
• Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no… — Alfred North Whitehead
• The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent.… — Giuseppe Mazzini
• Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s… — Mishka
• The purpose of revival is to fire the church with divine energy for her divine assignment. Revival will tear us… — David Shibley
• Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. — Herbert Read

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