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“There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by inspiration. Nor does it injure reason or custom, or debar them of their proper force; on the contrary, it directs us to open our minds by the proofs of the former, and to confirm our minds by the authority of the latter.”

Mind Believe Mean Doe Reason Inspiration Faith Three Force Christianity Son Authority Institutions Proof Contrary Rational Former Latter Customs

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.”

Mean Turns Evil Force Pleasure Moral Virtue Taste Importance Vices Regulation Elegance

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.”

World Firsts Mean Long Has Beens Government Lasts Force Parent Views Mankind Policy Intention Endure Confusion Fraud Good Intentions Refined

Book:The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke

Source: The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke

“The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.”

Love Heart Mean Force Power Courage Power Of Love Heart Love True Power

Author:Alan Cohen

“The sum of the whole matter is this: He who is one in will and heart with God is a Christian. He who loves God is one in will and heart with Him. He who trusts Christ loves God. That is Christianity in its ultimate purpose and result. That is Christianity in its means and working forces. That is Christianity in its starting point and foundation.”

Heart Mean Matter Whole Christian Purpose Force Christ Results Christianity Ultimate Foundation Starting God Love Starting Point Christ Love

Book:Sermons preached in Manchester

Source: Sermons preached in Manchester

“For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one's eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a cry of grateful love, from the crest of joy or the trough of despair; it's a vast, supernatural force which opens out my heart, and binds me close to Jesus.”

Heart Mean Eye Joy Jesus Force Heaven Prayer Cry My Heart Despair Grateful Lifting Launching Trough Lifting Up Supernatural Forces Grateful Love

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“Economic equity is an enormous empowerment of women. Having jobs that provide income means that women can be a more effective force, a more equal force, in the political process. Women with income take themselves more seriously and they are taken more seriously.”

Mean Jobs Political Force Process Taken Economic Equal Empowerment Enormous Income Equity

Author:Betty Friedan

“Here is Christianity. Whence came it? It is a force in the world, a prodigious force. It has revolutionized society. It has lifted man out of himself. It has changed the face of the world. There it lies, imbedded in more than eighteen centuries of human history; and history of no mean sort, the best record of the race.”

Men World Humans Mean Faces Lying Force Race Christianity Records Century Changed Human History Eighteen Prodigious

Book:Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration

Source: Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration

“Most conservatives - by which I mean normal people - have little conception of the aggressive and revolutionary force that confronts them. It is a revolutionary force in that it seeks to overturn the existing order, but it differs from the spirit of Marx and Lenin in that it never proclaims itself openly.”

People Mean Littles Spirit Order Force Normal Revolutionary Conception Aggressive

Author:Tom Bethell

“That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.”

Ifs Knows World Humans Mean Doe Reason Facts Force Pieces Wise Eternal Rational Conclusion Ads Rationality Embodiment Human Reason

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.”

Men Way Mean Truth Father Force Events Rate Hypothesis

Book:3 Books by Laurence Sterne

Source: 3 Books by Laurence Sterne

“Nothing can be plainer, than that the motions, changes, decays, and dissolutions, which we hourly see befall natural bodies (and which is what we mean by the course of nature), cannot possibly affect an active, simple, uncompounded substance: such a being therefore is indissoluble by the force of nature, that is to say, the soul of man is naturally immortal.”

Men Mean Soul Body Courses Force Nature Natural Simple Active Substance Immortality Immortal Decay Being There Dissolution Forces Of Nature

Book:A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

Source: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

“We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells uswhat we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says--Work; and to us it says--Seem! To you it says--As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labour is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says--Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labour. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.”

Source: The Story of an African Farm: A Novel

“I think that most of my books are part of some process of self-education, often about the places I go to. Most of all, they are about the peculiar tension between institutional loyalty and loyalty to oneself; the mystery of patriotism, for a Brit of my age and generation, where it runs, how it should be defined, what it's worth and what a corrupting force it can be when misapplied. All that stuff is just in me and it comes out in the characters. I don't mean to preach, but I know I do, and I'm a very flawed person. It's quite ridiculous.”

Thinking Knows Should Mean Persons Book Self Character Running Age Force Stuff Process Generations Mystery Oneself Loyalty Ridiculous Defined Tension Peculiar Flawed Self Education Brits

Author:John le Carre

“I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover, this behavior eventually leads to resentment. There's always a hidden agenda of What's in it for me? It's often suppressed, and this is why sacrifice is ultimately unwise and incomplete. Does this mean that there's no such thing as altruism, philanthropy, or generosity? No, it just means that anytime these exist, so do egocentricity, misanthropy, and greed. There's always a balancing force, even if it's sometimes hidden or unconscious.”

“Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.”

Source: The Recovery of Confidence

“The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces, the chief points in the process of history.”

Mean Doe Facts Force Process History Economic Events Determined Chiefs Interpretation Recurring

Author:Eduard Bernstein

“Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.”

Trying Mean Force Parent Members Labor Manage Overwhelming Odds Unresponsive Labor Force Overwhelming Odds

Author:Sheila Kamerman

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