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«If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
ceased, Christians, Did, For the, history, ineffective, in this, largely, next, other, precisely, present, read, The Histories, the next, the Other, The Other World, think of, thought, were
«In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.»
Author: Eldridge Cleaver
| Keywords:
denied, precisely, prison, prisoner, The Prisoner, The Prisoner of, wants, withheld, withholding, withholds
«Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.»
Author: John Naisbitt
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data, increasingly, information, intuition, intuitions, precisely, The New, valuable
«Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.»
Author: Mikhail Bakunin
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
conceives, dignity, forced, freely, Human dignity, morality, precisely
«If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?»
Author: Anton Chekhov
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call out, clear, cry, direction, directions, forward, go in, monk, opposite, precisely, revolutionaries, revolutionary, The Monk, The Monks, The Word
«Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.»
Author: Frank Herbert
(Author, Writer)
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bit, climb, followed, mountain, mountain climbing, nowhere, precisely, the least bit, the Mountain, top
«If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
capable, grasping, objectively, precisely
«Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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Right,
Voting
| Keywords:
individual rights, majorities, minorities, minority, oppression, precisely, protect, right to vote, smallest, subject to, the smallest, vote
«Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future -and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
carry on, developments, human relationship, precisely, presuppose, presupposes
«Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.»
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