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Quote by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

“Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.”

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Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, was a prominent English politician and diplomat. He served in high office during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, profoundly influencing British politics. more

“The vast majority of the peoples of the world are against war and against aggression. If they make their wishes known and effective, war can be stopped. It all depends on whether they are willing to make the effort necessary for the purpose. For, that it will require an effort, no one who considers the history of the world on these subjects can doubt.”

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Author:Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

“For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of the original redwood forests have been destroyed by timber corporations. ... Big business cut-and-run logging operations have instilled a false dichotomy: jobs versus the environment.”

“Suicide by carbon monoxide used to be done in the garage. Now, all you have to do is go to Mexico City and inhale.”

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Author:Richard Bayan

“Neighbours: the strangers who live next door.”

Next Doors Stranger Neighbor Neighbour

Author:Richard Bayan

“Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds.”

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Author:Richard Bayan

“There is the liability of accepting prematurely an artificial horizon for our own character and personality, of losing the horizon of the possible person we might be. It is the danger of considering our character as something static, rather than as something emerging.”

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Author:Halford Luccock

“The Christian message is not an exhortation - "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.”

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Book:Marching off the map: and other sermons

Source: Marching off the map: and other sermons

Quote by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

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