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«The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.»
«Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
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commonality, human flesh, inches, in common, One Piece, penis, penises, renounce, sensate, so as to
«Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time / is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
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bestial, bout, bouts, by fits and starts, by no means, commonplace, defenseless, dwells, fierce, fits, intangible, intangibles, nobility, privilege, relive, relives, reliving, reminder, reminders, so as to, sufferer, sufferers, torture, uncalled-for, waits
«Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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concerted, disorganized, distracted, for the most part, frustrated, impress, inefficacious, instance, in advance, in the main, monuments, organized society, raise up, sadly, so as to, subsequent, theoretic, The Practice
«The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
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Church
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any longer, communications, confronting, employ, gospel, grasp, impact, media, message, so as to, The Church
«I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
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Posterity
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explained, intentionally, kindly, omit, omits, omitted, omitting, Others The, posterity, so as to, The Pleasure
«There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.»
«Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need»
«Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
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adapted, contemplation, contemplative, so as to, The Practice, The Works
«To waste, to destroy, our natural resources,to skin and exhaust the land instead ofusing it so as to increase its usefulness,will result in undermining in the days of our childrenthe very prosperity which we ought by right tohand down to them amplified...»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
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amplified, amplify, Amplifying, exhaust, handed-down, hands down, hand down, increase, natural resource, natural resources, Natural right, natural rights, prosperity, resources, skin, so as to, The Land, undermined, undermines, undermining, usefulness, using
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