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«Why can't a woman be more like a man? / Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; / Eternally noble, historically fair.»
«The Gothic style historically, more perhaps than any other, released architecture from its earthbound confines.»
Author: Richard T. Feller
| Keywords:
earthbound, Gothic, Gothic architecture, historically, released
«The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Defense,
Tyranny
| Keywords:
at home, defense, foreign, historically, instruments
«It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Christianity,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
associated, dogma, exacts, historically, modern philosophy, rigid, supernaturalism
«Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| About:
History,
Violence
| Keywords:
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«Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
fecal, fecal matter, historically, intangible, intangibles, proximity, repulsion, unmentionable, wield, wielded, wields
«The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Secrets
| Keywords:
historically, oaths, Open society, proceedings, repugnant, secrecy, secret societies, secret society, societies
«It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
expose, historically, Laws of nature, the laws of nature, transcend
«Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain --if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| Keywords:
historically, mission, outweigh, outweighing, outweighs, rewards
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