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Letter "E" » enlightened
«Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.»
Author: John Perry Barlow
| About:
Ethics,
Identity
| Keywords:
coercion, commonweal, emerge, enlightened, governance, identities, physical body, self interest
«Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
| Keywords:
acquisition, acquisitions, analyzed, anthropology, decently, enlightened, philosophical, philosophical theory, sweep away, swept, Swept Away, theory-based
«My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.»
Author: Gerald R. Ford
(President, Vice President)
| Keywords:
enlightened, heritage, honors, self interest
«I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.»
Author: John Updike
| Keywords:
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«In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.»
Author: Scott Adams
(Cartoonist)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
around, buy, buy time, car, cars, enlightened, enlightening, hot, hotter, impress, impresses, impressing, jerked, jerks, realized, ride, Riding In, The Cars, wised
«MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bottle, enlightened, females, Mammalia, nurse, state of nature, suckle, suckled, suckling, vertebrate, vertebrates
«Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
dirty, dislike, enlightened, shallow, Wade, waded, wades, wading, waters
«If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Astrology
| Keywords:
astrology, enlightened, flourish, perish
«Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| Keywords:
achievements, conquer, enlightened, enlightening, foreknowledge, general, ordinary, prince, surpass, surpassed, surpassing, The Enemy
«I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their»
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