"We have become, by the power of a……" — Stephen Jay Gould
"We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are."
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Stephen Jay Gould
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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
— Theodor Adorno
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We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond…
— John Calvin
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To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement…
— Richard Rorty
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The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.
— John Donne
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I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally…
— Galileo Galilei
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Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
— George Orwell
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The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely…
— Iris Murdoch
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This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to…
— William Shakespeare
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I abjure you,” Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as…
— Charlaine Harris
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I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the…
— Galileo Galilei
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Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires;…
— William Shakespeare
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