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Letter "C" » councils
«The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.»
Author: Daniel S. Greenberg
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Science
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academe, affluence, ascent, cloister, cloistered, cloisters, councils, excitable, fluctuate, fluctuating, nouveau riche, rapid, riche, scientific community, tends to
«We have to wipe out Bushism itself, before it wipes us out. That means showing up and voting smart in every election, big and small. I think that in many ways that, the local elections are even more important than the national elections. It's the mayors and the city councils and county comissioners and the school boards and the legislators that decide how to spend the money they fleece off of us in taxes.»
«Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.»
«In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.»
«But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.»
«But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; / And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.»
«In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?»
Author: French Proverb
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councils, council of, ought, question, so much, state, The Question
«To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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all-time, appeal, book of knowledge, conception, councils, council of, Judges, LED, of all time, purer, rightly, sentence, solitary, unstable, wider
«The bishop who has answered me has been obliged to acknowledge the fact, that the Books that compose the NT, were voted by yeas and nays to be the word of God, as you now vote a law, by the Popish councils of Nicea and Laodocia, about 1,450 years ago.»
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