"Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special……" — Phillips Brooks

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• Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying… — Simone de Beauvoir
• The bending of men's hearts to believe and persevere are the supernatural fruits of God's eternal decree, and not the… — William Jenkyn
• You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance.… — Mahatma Gandhi
• Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded… — Lee Strobel
• God's eternal decree certainly rendered the entrance of sin into the world certain, but this may not be interpreted so… — Louis Berkhof
• Sin must be within God's eternal decrees in some sense in which He is not the author of it .… — J. Oliver Buswell
• We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at… — R C Sproul
• If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no… — Daniel Ellsberg
• ... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers… — Maria Montessori
• ... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to… — Bahá'u'lláh
• On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the… — Yehuda Berg
• Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from… — John Dickinson

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