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«Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.»
Author: Daniel P. Moynihan
(Politician)
| Keywords:
agencies, at birth, conservatives, do good, endowed, government agencies, Liberals, namely, skepticism
«There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed»
Author: Hannah Moore
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Christianity
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infidelities, infidelity, namely, oppose, repented, single bed
«Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
apparatus, assign, assigning, assigns, coercion, dominating, external, ideology, machinery, namely, peculiar, role, rule by, terrorize, terrorizing, thanks, totalitarianism
«There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
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namely, objection, religious doctrine, wholesome, Writings
«The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated -- namely, the lavatory.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
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analytic, attribute, dogma, lavatories, lavatory, namely, originated, psychoanalysis, to the point, trace
«We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can / namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.»
«There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, Novelty, novelty, novelty»
«To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
humiliation, humiliations, namely, provide
«The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.»
«There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
bred, distemper, distempered, distempers, headache, leprosy, namely, peremptorily, sciatica, well-bred
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