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«In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Atheism
| Keywords:
guardians, instance, liberties, The Guardian
«Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.»
«A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world. For instance, injustice, unfairness or inconsistency in the parents seems to make a child feel anxious and unsafe. This attitude may not be so mu»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
anxious, for instance, inconsistencies, inconsistency, instance, orderly, predictable, rhythm, routine, unfairness, unsafe
«Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
Beyond the Limits, first instance, futility, grasp, grasps, human mind, illusion, instance, limits, mad, The Second
«BOUNTY, n. The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures. --Henry Ward Beecher»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Beecher, Henry, Henry Ward Beecher, instance, providing, supplying, take to, take to be, ward
«HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and utmost gravity, and held in hereditary disesteem by a populace having a criminal ancestry. In some of the American States his functions are now performed by an electrician, as in New Jersey, where executions by electricity have recently been ordered --the first instance known to this lexicographer of anybody questioning the expediency of hanging Jerseymen.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ancestry, disesteem, disesteemed, electrician, electricians, executions, first instance, hangman, hereditary, instance, law of gravity, officer, ordered, questioning
«For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Confidence,
Presidency,
Women
| Keywords:
for instance, fulfill, functions, instance, slightest
«Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
belonged, developments, dreamed, firmly, instance, privileges, Scientific progress, technical
«And now we're coming to understand, I think, spiritually in this nation that there is as much power in the soul as there is in group force. There is as much power in listening and understanding and humility as there is, for instance, in military action.»
Author: Marianne Williamson
(Author, Lecturer)
| Keywords:
for instance, instance, military action, military force, military power, spiritually
«As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance,cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.»
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