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«Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.»
Author: Archibald Cox
| About:
Achievement,
Law and lawyers,
Society
| Keywords:
centuries, disputes, enable, force of law, maximum, minimum, persistently, resolution
«The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.»
«The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| Keywords:
centuries, conversation, finest, mind reading, reading, The Finest
«To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization.»
Author: Timothy Healy
| About:
Libraries
| Keywords:
captured, captures, centuries, civilization, conversation, ears, Libraries, Noisier, noisiest, noisy, shelves, voices
«Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
armed, centuries, first century, first steps, roads, steps, throughout, took, vision
«The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.»
«Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
centuries, travelling
«We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
Americans, centuries, events, four, hours, informed, informing, informs, last century, sixty, twenty-four, twenty-four hours, twenty
«The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
ages, Age of Man, ago, centuries, died, extinguished, extinguishes, extinguishing, lights, personalities, reaches
«The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
centuries, contradictory, debts, necessities, oscillated, oscillates, oscillating, payment, serenely, social order, unaware
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