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“The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode in foreign politics when it is especially an act of internal politics and the most atrocious act of all . . . Since the directing apparatus has no other way of fighting the enemy than by sending its own soldiers, under compulsion, to their death-the war of one state against another state resolves itself into a war of the state and the military apparatus against its own people.”
“The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.”
“The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)
“The great error of physicians has been that of attributing recovery to the operations of their poisons, while they have left out of account the healing powers of the body itself.”
Source: The History of Natural Hygiene and Principles of Natural Hygiene
“The great error of the Catholic Church, the Protestant, Christian and Evangelical churches is that they preach a Christos devoid of his consort: Sophia. These churches are teaching an unbalanced representation of the Divine Emanation. This 'imbalance' is evidence of the activity of the Archons working inside the churches.”
Source: Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!
“The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.”
Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)
“The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.”
“The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes!”
“The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.”
“The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in the world, and that it is at bottom the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. Only through achieving this love can you expect to matriculate into the university of eternal life.”
“The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists .”
Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace
“The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.”
“The great events of the world take place in the brain.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“The great example, the killer example in history, is of course Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. Read his speeches. Read the debates. Wendell Phillips called him "the great slaver from Illinois."”
“The great exception to that, of course, is Johnny Depp, who is absolutely the ultimate character actor. Johnny Depp is the future of the character actor and thanks to his success maybe we will see the return of an era when my sort of actor is back in vogue. It's not in vogue for me to be in Hollywood movies as lots of different people.”
“The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.”
Source: Experimental Medicine
“The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.”
Source: Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature: Four Essays
“The great fact all the while however had been the incalculability; since he had supposed himself, from decade to decade, to be allowing, and in the most liberal and intelligent manner, for brilliancy of change. He actually saw that he *had* allowed for nothing; he missed what he would have been sure of finding, he found what he would never have imagined. Proportions and values were upside-down; the ugly things he had expected, the ugly things of his far away youth, when he had too promptly waked up to a sense of the ugly--these uncanny phenomena placed him rather, as it happened, under the charm; whereas the 'swagger' things, the modern, the monstrous, the famous things, those he had more particularly, like thousands of ingenuous enquirers every year, come over to see, were exactly his sources of dismay. They were as so many set traps for displeasure, above all for reaction, of which his restless tread was constantly pressing the spring. It was interesting, doubtless, the whole show, but it would have been too disconcerting hadn't a certain finer truth saved the situation. He had distinctly not, in this steadier light, come over *all* for the monstrosities; he had come, not only in the last analysis but quite on the face of the act, under an impulse with which they had nothing to do. ("The Jolly Corner")”
Source: Henry James: Complete Stories 1892–1898
“The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.”
Source: The Professor's House
“The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?”
“The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.”
Source: The Best of Willa Cather
“The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus”
“The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.”
“The Great Famine is a period of our history that we need to know in great detail in order to understand its continuing impact on us as a people. Its causes were complex. We can't apportion blame simplistically but rather [must] understand that blame has to be shared in different areas and levels of society. It was the very poorest of the poor, the small tenants and cottiers, who really suffered. Others were less affected. But most of all I welcomed the commemoration because it was a moment to look into our past and realize the courage and resilience of those who survived.”
“The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.”
“The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach.”
Source: Albert Schweitzer: Essential Writings
“The great fault of logic is that it seems so reasonable, even when it is not.”
Source: The Ethos Effect
“The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.”
Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences
“The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. It can be safer to stay in a comfort zone that's not stretching yourself.”
“The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. You have to be willing to be afraid, if you're going to be an artist.”
“The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.”
“The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it's only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny.”
“The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.”
“The great financial capital is not in one country, it is transnational, that is why it answers to power elites and that is why when I talk about the imperial power of United States I am in no way referring to the American people, who are a noble people that have always been moved by humane concerns.”
“The Great Fires"
Love is apart from all things. …
Love allows us to walk
in the sweet music of our particular heart.”
“The Great Firewall (The Sonnet)
99% of the world's human rights
violations are manufactured by the west,
either directly or retrospectively.
No wonder, China is so strict about limiting
western influence on the national psyche!
China is right to ban our entire western internet,
Wouldn't you do the same if you had the might!
If you were self sufficient enough, wouldn't you do
the same to the moron whose biggest contribution
to the world has been genocide, partisan, apartheid!
Every parent tries their best to keep
their children away from bad influence.
You ain't qualified to speak of liberty
till you take off your western glasses.
Political correctness is not social justice,
any more than bigoted boneheadedness is.
Moral sensitivity is just mark of judgmentality,
till we disinfect ourselves from our westernness.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“The great fish eat the small.”
“The great fish moved silently through the night water.”
Source: Jaws 2-Book Bundle: Jaws and Shark Trouble
“The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.”
Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
“The great force!
Few of us relate it with the dark,
Many with the world unknown,
A realm that erases every mark,
Of every seed that in the farm of life was sown,
Life fears it and hides at a place called nowhere,
Yet it chases it and seeks it,
Because its domain is everywhere,
And life ultimately before it does submit,
It rules over priests, emperors and paupers alike,
A force that expects complete submission,
It is not a feeling visceral that you may like,
Because it enters every domain without any permission,
Some say it even rules over time and its every moment,
And it is not vindictive at all,
Because even without the Sun its shadow is permanent,
It has existed since the world witnessed the great fall,
Its appearance is not due to serendipity,
Because it is the final destiny of everything,
It is an experience, felt just for a brevity,
It appears from nothing and disappears into nothing,
A force before which all kneel,
Many incriminate it because it robs them entirely,
Throughout one's life it seems unreal and in a moment becomes real,
It leaves all sentimental and teary,
It is death, the force all living shall experience one day,
I wonder why flowers and butterflies do not dread it,
I saw it capture and wilt a beautiful flower today,
Yet the drooping and dead flower smiled as the hope of next Summer in its fading petals lit,
Because death can wilt a summer flower, but it can't keep the Summer from returning again,
It can kill a man and a woman, but it can never kill life’s spirit,
Without life what shall it kill again and again,
So you may despise it, but without it who shall renew life, if not it?
There maybe no foreboding feeling about its arrival,
But then it is the same about Summer’s advent too,
Maybe life and death travel together for life’s continuous revival,
And whose act is it who knows, because when a newly married couple says “We do!”
We shower them with dead flowers, beautiful flowers,
Who killed them, who hurled them, who ended their lives?
Just for the sake of prolonging the romance of two lovers,
I guess that is how death in mysterious ways strives,
Killing all eventually but never taking the blame,
So let me too pluck a beautiful rose and gift it to my beautiful lady,
All for the sake of love and in the love’s name,
Let me love her today and love her everyday,
Because who knows when the dark force might strike,
A rose too feels happier in her hands,
Because it knows it makes her smile and in this act they are alike,
Spreading happiness even in death forsaken lands,
That is where all beautiful flowers go when they wilt here,
To the land where there is everlasting Summer,
And every form of beauty always looks the same everywhere,
They go there to impart it colours and shades warmer,
So when the flower fades and falls,
Let us not blame death and curse it,
Because it is the only way to climb and cross few walls,
For it too ultimately before the mighty will of the Universe does submit!”
Source: They Loved in 2075!
“The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.”
Source: The challenge of facts: and other essays
“The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.”
“The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals.”
Source: Keeper of Dreams
“The great fraud of the wireless radiation industry is that the only known detrimental health effects come from thermal heating.”
“The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us.”
“The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just now learning to paint." Renoir carried his gift with a humility which realized how much he still had to learn. Anyone who goes deeply into a field in life and realizes this, gains a sense of proportion that can only make you humble.”
“The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!”
“The great frothing waves broke into frothy as they slammed onto the rocks, but they kept rolling in, again and again. The sight of those persistent waves calmed him, and instead of anger, all he felt was a deep sadness.”
Source: VoiceMates
“The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.”