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“The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.”

Has Beens Failing Influence Argument Dues Purity Consideration

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

“THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. . . . NEVER IN ANY CORRESPONDING LENGTH OF TIME HAD THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE GIVEN RISE TO SO MANY NEW MOVEMENTS. NEVER HAD IT HAD QUITE SO GREAT AN EFFECT UPON WESTERN EUROPEAN PEOPLES. IT WAS FROM THIS ABOUNDING VIGOR THAT THERE ISSUED THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE WHICH DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SO AUGMENTED THE NUMERICAL STRENGTH AND THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY.”

“Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. For punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment; while punishment, when ill-awarded under the influence of greed and anger or owing to ignorance, excites fury even among hermits and ascetics dwelling in forests, not to speak of householders.”

People Speak Wealth Influence Ignorance Greed Ill Dues Punishment Forests Enjoyment Productive Consideration Righteousness Awards Devoted Severe Fury Respectable Dwelling Owing Hermits

Author:Chanakya

“Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well disposed power. Normally it should not take place. So we have all through history crude explanations of death, as e.g., the influence of the serpent, the devil, sin.”

Men Should Wells Natural Sin Influence Devil Affair Dues Explanation Primitive Intervention Crude Serpent Primitive Man

Book:The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy

Source: The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy

“If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church”

Ifs Government Church Influence Dues Soviet

Book:Man's Peril, 1954-55

Source: Man's Peril, 1954-55

“The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.”

Should Loses Leader Atheism Influence Circumstances Degrees Argument Positive Atheism Dues Disappear Proof Prestige

Book:The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

Source: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

“We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.”

Wells Enough Practice Atheism Influence Modern Dues Short Time Modern Times

Author:E. Haldeman-Julius

“When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.”

Knows Doe Matter Play Song Stuff Pay Records Influence Draws Dues Bars Great Things Tanks

Author:Eric Church

“Frivolous thinking is due to foreign thought. Japan must no longer let the impudence of the white peoples go unpunished. It is the duty of Japan to fulfill her natural destiny, to cause China to respect the Japanese, to expel Chinese influence from Manchuria, and to follow the way of imperial destiny.”

Thinking Way Causes Natural White Destiny Influence Duty China Dues Chinese Japan Frivolous Impudence

Author:Sadao Araki

“So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.”

Has Beens Given Influence Dues Miles Legacy

Author:Herbie Hancock