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“Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.”

Men Reason Feelings Passion Conflict Guides Small Parts True Or False

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor is there in my judgment any excuse for a conflict between science and religion, for their fields are entirely different. Men who know very little of science and men who know very little of religion do indeed get to quarreling, and the onlookers imagine that there is a conflict between science and religion, whereas the conflict is only between two different species of ignorance.”

Knows Men Littles I Can Two Different Imagine Atheism Fields Ignorance Conflict Judgment Bases Species Excuse Denial Imagine That Science And Religion

Author:Robert Andrews Millikan

“Dead men never pick up their trophies.”

Men War Conflict Picks Trophies Dead Man

Author:Michael Weisskopf

“There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of God-made harmonies coming up from the deep past, and rising to their height when man appeared, the later teaching man's relations to his Maker, and speaking of loftier harmonies in the eternal future.”

Men Made Two Book Real Past Science Teaching Future Conflict Eternal Relation Harmony Height Rising Revelations Makers Great Author

Book:Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special Reference to American Geological History

Source: Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special Reference to American Geological History

“If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God.”

Ifs Men Made Christian Duty Demand Conflict Eternal Institutions Gods Will Customs Almighty Almighty God Transitory Precedence

Author:Martin Luther

“I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.”

Knows Men Happens Divine He Man Conflict

Author:Giovanni della Casa

“I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.”

People Men Want Years Mean Different Country Clear Violence Conflict Hundred Men And Women Years Ago Honestly Afghan

Author:Hillary Clinton

“We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in this way bring about the conflict for which we, too, like other men, are hungering in secret, and with suppressed barbarity.”

Men Way Use Justice Secret Ignorance Conflict Claims Careful Violent Righteousness Be Careful Provoking Peace And Justice Barbarity

Author:Thomas Merton

“And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs: paired cavalry fighters; formed ranks of armored death; grim men on their tall horses with lightning limning weapons tailored to the task; men spoiling for a fight if the gods allowed - the Sacred Band of Stepsons, out from shadows and the dark.”

Ifs Men Death Fighting Dark White Sky Battle Band Conflict Weapons Glory Shadow Commitment Tasks Horse Sacred Fighter Tall Lightning Grim Tailored Cavalry Stepsons

Book:The Sacred Band

Source: The Sacred Band

“Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.”

Source: The Art of Being Ruled