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Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.
Johann Georg Hamann
Tags: Our Things Being
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Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.


Nelson Mandela
Tags: Men Only Cannot
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.
Victor Cousin
Tags: Men Nature Things
The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a democratic society, law is the form which free men give to justice.
Robert Kennedy
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Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?


Zebulon Pike
Tags: Good Without Why
We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.
Carolyn Maloney
Tags: Women Our Will
The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
Alva Myrdal
Tags: Men Peace Way
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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.


Dante Alighieri
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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.


Denis Diderot
Tags: Great Things Only
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
Edward Gibbon
Tags: Power Free Lost
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Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.


Dorothea Dix
Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
Karl Barth
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With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
Anthony Lewis
Tags: War Whole America
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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.


Alexander Hamilton
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Little things please little minds.


Ovid
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Marcus Aurelius
Tags: You Your Been
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.


Mike Jackson
Tags: Change You People
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Andre Maurois
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High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.


Ellen G. White